The influence of social status on the rate of growth, eye color pattern and Insulin-like Growth Factor-I gene expression in Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 611-619

  Vera Cruz, Emmanuel M ^a,b   Brown, Christopher L ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Growth; Hepatic IGF I; Hierarchy; O. niloticus; Social stress

Indexed keywords

LIVER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOSTATIN 14;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE COLOR; FEEDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIVER; NONHUMAN; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS; SOMATOSTATIN RELEASE; TELEOST; TILAPIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CICHLIDS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; EYE COLOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LIVER; MALE; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34249045688     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.02.010     Document Type: Article

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