Variation in brain arginine vasotocin (AVT) and isotocin (IT) levels with reproductive stage and social status in males of three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 290-296

  Kleszczyńska, Agnieszka ^a   Sokołowska, Ewa ^a   Kulczykowska, Ewa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aggression; Arginine vasotocin; Courtship; Isotocin; Reproductive behavior; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; ISOTOCIN; PROTEIN VARIANT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARGIPRESTOCIN BRAIN LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; EGG; FEMALE; FISH; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GEOGRAPHY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; ISOTOCIN BRAIN LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 84855209611     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.11.022     Document Type: Article

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