Population divergence in plasticity of the AVT system and its association with aggressive behaviors in a Death Valley pupfish

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 183-193

  Lema, Sean C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Section of Neurobiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Development; Evolution; Evolutionary endocrinology; Fish; Osmoregulation; Phenotypic plasticity; Social behavior; Vasopressin; Vasotocin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FISH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GIANT CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LABORATORY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPFISH; REARING; RIVER; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KILLIFISHES; MALE; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION; PREOPTIC AREA; TEMPERATURE; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 33745922096     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.02.010     Document Type: Article

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