Variability of GnRH secretion in two goby species with socially controlled alternative male mating tactics

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-117

  Scaggiante, Marta ^a   Grober, Matthew S ^b   Lorenzi, Varenka ^b   Rasotto, Maria B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative male mating tactics; Black goby; Grass goby; Male sexual phenotypes; Preoptic GnRH

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONAD; GONADORELIN RELEASE; MALE; MATING; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAWNING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; PERCIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; PREOPTIC AREA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646823627     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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