Divergent hormonal responses to social competition in closely related species of haplochromine cichlid fish

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 518-526

  Dijkstra, Peter D ^a,b,c   Verzijden, Machteld N ^c,d   Groothuis, Ton G G ^b   Hofmann, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

11 Ketotestosterone; Cichlid; Cortisol; Male male competition; Speciation; Steroid; Teleost; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; HYDROCORTISONE;

AGGRESSION; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CICHLID; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING ECOLOGY; HORMONE RESPONSE; MALE; MBIPIA LUTEA; MBIPIA MBIPI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNDAMILIA NYEREREI; PUNDAMILIA PUNDAMILIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HORMONES; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PIGMENTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEROIDS; TERRITORIALITY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84859101511     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.01.011     Document Type: Article

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