Winning fights induces hyperaggression via the action of the biogenic amine octopamine in crickets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Rillich, Jan ^a   Stevenson, Paul Anthony ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPINASTINE; FLUPHENAZINE; OCTOPAMINE; PROPRANOLOL; YOHIMBINE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIGHTING; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS; INVERTEBRATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCTOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; GRYLLIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GRYLLIDAE; MALE; OCTOPAMINE;

EID: 83755188122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028891     Document Type: Article

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