Social odors conveying dominance and reproductive information induce rapid physiological and neuromolecular changes in a cichlid fish

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Simões, José M ^a,b,c   Barata, Eduardo N ^d,e   Harris, Rayna M ^f   O'Connell, Lauren A ^f,g   Hofmann, Hans A ^f   Oliveira, Rui F ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c CHAMPALIMAUD FOUNDATION   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cichlid; Microarray; Olfaction; Olfactory bulb; Telencephalon; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL CUE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTOMETRY; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY PALLIUM; OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPAWNING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; URINARY FREQUENCY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CICHLIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC FITNESS; NERVE NET; ODORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84924282776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1255-4     Document Type: Article

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