Social context may affect urinary excretion of 11-ketotestosterone in African cichlids

Behaviour

Volumn 145, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1367-1388

  Hirschenhauser, Katharina ^a   Canário, Adelino V M ^b   Ros, Albert F H ^c   Taborsky, Michael ^d,e   Oliveira, Rui F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^d KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Androgen responses; Challenge; Cichlid; Conjugated metabolites; Gill diffusion; Non invasive methods; Steroid excretion; Urine

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; CICHLIDAE; LAMPROLOGUS CALLIPTERUS; NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER; OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS; PSEUDOSIMOCHROMIS CURVIFRONS; TROPHEUS MOORII;

EID: 53549104422     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853908785765935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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