Behavioral and physiological plasticity: Rapid changes during social ascent in an African cichlid fish

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 230-240

  Maruska, Karen P ^a   Fernald, Russell D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

11 ketotestosterone; Androgen; Astatotilapia burtoni; Challenge hypothesis; Dominance; Reproductive behavior; Social ascension; Territorial behavior

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; 11-KETOTESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TERRITORIALITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DARKNESS; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CICHLIDS; DARKNESS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953358688     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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