Hormonal mechanisms of cooperative behaviour

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1553, 2010, Pages 2737-2750

  Soares, Marta C ^a,b   Bshary, Redouan ^b   Fusani, Leonida ^c   Goymann, Wolfgang ^d   Hau, Michaela ^d   Hirschenhauser, Katharina ^d   Oliveira, Rui F ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Androgens; Arginine vasopressin; Cooperative behaviour; Glucocorticoids; Oxytocin; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HORMONE; NEUROLOGY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77957259023     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0151     Document Type: Review

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