Hormonal anticipation of territorial challenges in cichlid fish

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 37, 2009, Pages 15985-15989

  Antunes, Raquel A ^a,b   Oliveira, Rui F ^a,b  

^a Instituto Superior de Psicologia   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aggression; Androgens; Associative learning

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CONDITIONING; FISH; HORMONE ACTION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERRITORIALITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRAINING;

CICHLIDAE; OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS;

EID: 70349463144     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900817106     Document Type: Article

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