Sex steroid hormones modulate responses to social challenge and opportunity in males of the monogamous convict cichlid, Amatitliana nigrofasciata

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 189, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-65

  Sessa, Anna K ^a   Harris, Rayna M ^a   Hofmann, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

11 Ketotestosterone; Androgen; Estrogen; Reproduction; Social behavior; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR AGONIST; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR AGONIST; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; HORMONE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGRESSION; AMATITLIANA NIGROFASCIATA; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84878224919     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.04.031     Document Type: Article

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