Rising StARs: Behavioral, hormonal, and molecular responses to social challenge and opportunity

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 631-641

  Huffman, Lin S ^a   Mitchell, Maggie M ^a   O'Connell, Lauren A ^a   Hofmann, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Androgen; Aromatase; Gene expression; Luteinizing hormone receptor; Plasticity; Sex steroid hormone; Sexual behavior; Social dominance

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROMATASE GENE; ARTICLE; ASTATOTILAPIA BURTONI; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR GENE; MALE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE OPPORTUNITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN GENE; TERRITORIALITY; TESTIS MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; UPREGULATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CICHLIDS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, LH; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STEROIDS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84859099766     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.02.016     Document Type: Article

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