Food deprivation explains effects of mouthbrooding on ovaries and steroid hormones, but not brain neuropeptide and receptor mRNAs, in an African cichlid fish

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-26

  Grone, Brian P ^a   Carpenter, Russ E ^a   Lee, Malinda ^a   Maruska, Karen P ^a   Fernald, Russell D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cichlid; Estradiol; Feeding; GnRH; Neuropeptide; NPY; Parental care; Reproduction; Teleost; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHOLECYSTOKININ; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y8C RECEPTOR; OREXIN; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTATOTILAPIA BURTONI; BODY MASS; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CHOLECYSTOKININ; CICHLIDS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RECEPTORS, LHRH; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE Y; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84862259199     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.04.012     Document Type: Article

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