Rapid increase in aggressive behavior precedes the decrease in brain aromatase activity during socially mediated sex change in Lythrypnus dalli

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-124

  Black, Michael P ^a   Balthazart, Jacques ^b   Baillien, Michelle ^b   Grober, Matthew S ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

11 Ketotestosterone; Brain aromatase; Challenge hypothesis; Estrogen; Plasticity; Teleost; Testosterone; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; AROMATASE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FISH; LYTHRYPNUS DALLI; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DOMINANCE;

EID: 78650310663     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.09.019     Document Type: Article

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