Stress hormone masculinizes female morphology and behaviour

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 150-152

  Knapp, Rosemary ^a   Marsh Matthews, Edie ^a   Vo, Luanne ^a   Rosencrans, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Endocrine disruptors; Masculinization; Mosquitofish; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANDROGEN; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CATALYSIS; COPULATION; CYPRINID; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MASCULINIZATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; STEROID; TAXONOMY;

GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79551480267     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0514     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Sapolsky, R. M., Romero, L. M. & Munck, A. U. 2000 How do glucocorticoids influence stress responses? Integrating permissive, suppressive, stimulatory, and preparative actions. Endocr. Rev. 21, 55-89. (doi:10. 1210/er.21.1.55)
2. Davis, K. B., Torrance, P., Parker, N. C. & Suttle, M. A. 1985 Growth, body composition and hepatic tyrosine aminotransferase activity in cortisol-fed channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus Rafinesque. J. Fish Biol. 27, 177-184. (doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.1985.tb04019.x)
3. Marsh-Matthews, E. & Deaton, R. 2006 Resources and offspring provisioning: a test of the Trexler-DeAngelis model for matrotrophy evolution. Ecology 87, 3014-3020.
4. Turner, C. L. 1960 The effects of steroid hormones on the development of some secondary sexual characters in cyprinodont fishes. Trans. Am. Microsc. Soc. 79, 320-333. (doi:10.2307/3223741)
5. Orlando, E. F., Davis, W. P., Edwards, T. M., Sulkowski, D. F., Toft, G. & Guillette Jr, L. J. 2005 Mosquitofish as sentinels of exposure to environmental androgens and estrogens. In Viviparous fishes (eds M. E. Uribe & H. J. Grier), pp. 435-453. Homestead, FL: New Life Publications.
6. Gore, A. C. (ed.) 2007 Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: from basic research to clinical practice. Towton, NJ: Humana Press.
7. Nelson, R. J. 2005 An introduction to behavioral endocrinology, 3rd edn. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
8. Warner, D. A., Radder, R. S. & Shine, R. 2009 Corticos-terone exposure during embryonic development affects offspring growth and sex ratios in opposing directions in two lizard species with environmental sex determination. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 82, 363-371. (doi:10.1086/588491)
9. Love, O. P., Chin, E. H., Wynne-Edwards, K. E. & Williams, T. D. 2005 Stress hormones: a link between maternal condition and sex-biased reproductive investment. Am. Nat. 166, 751-766. (doi:10.1086/497440) (Pubitemid 41778888)
10. Angus, R. A., McNatt, H. B., Howell, W. M. & Peoples, S. D. 2001 Gonopodium development in normal male and 11-ketotesterone-treated female mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis): a quantitative study using computer image analysis. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 123, 222-234. (doi:10.1006/gcen. 2001.7669)
11. Grillitsch, B., Altmann, D., Schabuss, M., Sommerfeld-Stur, I. & Moestl, E. 2009 Mammalian steroid stress hormone metabolites masculinize external sex characteristics in fish. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A 154, S26.
12. Hattori, R. S. et al. 2009 Cortisol-induced masculiniza-tion: does thermal stress affect gonadal fate in pejerrey, a teleost fish with temperature-dependent sex determination? PLoS ONE 4, e6548. (doi:10.1371/ journal. pone.0006548).
13. Kaiser, S., Kruijver, F. P. M., Swaab, D. F. & Sachser, N. 2003 Early social stress in female guinea pigs induces masculinization of adult behavior and corresponding changes in brain and neuroendocrine function. Behav. Brain Res. 144, 199-210. (doi:10.1016/S0166-4328 (03) 00077-9)
14. Yazawa, T., Uesaka, M., Inaoka, Y., Mizutani, T., Sekiguchi, T., Kajitani, T., Kitano, T., Umezawa, A. & Miyamoto, K. 2008 Cyp11b1 is induced in the murine gonad by luteinizing hormone/human chorionic gonadotropin and involved in the production of 11-ketotestosterone, a major fish androgen: conservation and evolution of the androgen metabolic pathway. Endocrinology 149, 1786-1792. (doi:10.1210/en. 2007-1015)
15. Mazziotti, G., Angeli, A., Bilezikian, J. P., Canalis, E. & Giustina, A. 2006 Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis: an update. Trends Endocrinol. Metab. 17, 144-149. (doi:10.1016/j.tem.2006.03.009)
16. Odermatt, A., Gumy, C., Atanasov, A. G. & Dzyajanchuk, A. A. 2006 Disruption of glucocorticoid action by environmental chemicals: potential mechanisms and relevance. J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol. 102, 222-231. (doi:10.1016/j.jsbmb.2006.09.010) (Pubitemid 44750634)