Changes in brain arginine vasotocin, isotocin, plasma 11-ketotestosterone and cortisol in round goby, Neogobius melanostomus, males subjected to overcrowding stress during the breeding season

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 237-242

  Sokołowska, Ewa ^a   Kleszczyńska, Agnieszka ^a   Kalamarz Kubiak, Hanna ^a   Arciszewski, Bartłomiej ^b   Kulczykowska, Ewa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aggression; Arginine vasotocin; High fish density; Isotocin; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ARGIPRESTOCIN; HYDROCORTISONE; ISOTOCIN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN; BREEDING; DENSITY; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; NEOGOBIUS MELANOSTOMUS; NONHUMAN; OVERCROWDING STRESS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS;

APOLLONIA MELANOSTOMUS;

EID: 84876311053     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.03.018     Document Type: Article

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