Cortisol mediates cleaner wrasse switch from cooperation to cheating and tactical deception

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 346-350

  Soares, Marta C ^a   Cardoso, Sónia C ^b   Grutter, Alexandra S ^c   Oliveira, Rui F ^b,d   Bshary, Redouan ^e  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cleaner fish; Cooperative levels; Cortisol; Glucocorticoids; Labroides dimidiatus; Tactical deception

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HORMONE ANTAGONIST; MIFEPRISTONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FISH; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BLOOD; COOPERATION; DRUG EFFECTS; MENTAL STRESS; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECEPTION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HYDROCORTISONE; MIFEPRISTONE; PERCIFORMES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84903554225     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.06.010     Document Type: Article

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