Arginine vasotocin regulates social ascent in the African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 212, Issue , 2015, Pages 106-113

  Huffman, Lin S ^a   Hinz, Flora I ^a   Wojcik, Sophie ^b   Aubin Horth, Nadia ^b,c   Hofmann, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggression; Manning compound; Nonapeptides; Plasticity; Social dominance

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTATOTILAPIA BURTONI; BRAIN TISSUE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL ASCENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; ETIOLOGY; GENETICS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CICHLIDS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 84921464840     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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