Social competition affects electric signal plasticity and steroid levels in the gymnotiform fish Brachyhypopomus gauderio

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 399-409

  Salazar, Vielka L ^a,b   Stoddard, Philip K ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Androgen; Communication signal; Cortisol; Electric fish; Electric organ discharge; Gymnotiform; Male competition; Social history; Steroid

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRACHYHYPOPOMUS GAUDERIO; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTRICITY; GYMNOTIFORMES; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STEROIDS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 70349731412     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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