Dominance hierarchies and social status ascent opportunity: Anticipatory behavioral and physiological adjustments in a Neotropical cichlid fish

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 612-618

  Alonso, Felipe ^a   Honji, Renato Massaaki ^b   Moreira, Renata Guimarães ^b   Pandolfi, Matías ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Cichlasoma dimerus; Females social hierarchy

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; FOLLITROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CICHLASOMA DIMERUS; CICHLID; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL STATUS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASTRATION; CICHLIDS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; PITUITARY GLAND; REPRODUCTION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84860377518     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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