An Essential Role of the Arginine Vasotocin System in Mate-Guarding Behaviors in Triadic Relationships of Medaka Fish (Oryzias latipes)

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-25

  Yokoi, Saori ^a   Okuyama, Teruhiro ^a,b   Kamei, Yasuhiro ^b,c   Naruse, Kiyoshi ^b,c   Taniguchi, Yoshihito ^d   Ansai, Satoshi ^e   Kinoshita, Masato ^e   Young, Larry J ^f   Takemori, Nobuaki ^g   Kubo, Takeo ^a   Takeuchi, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; ARGIPRESTOCIN RECEPTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVT GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; GENE; HOMOZYGOSITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; MATING; MATING SUCCESS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS LATIPES; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; V1A2 GENE; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; COPULATION; GENETICS; MARRIAGE; METABOLISM; MOTIVATION; ORYZIAS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ORYZIAS LATIPES; ORYZIINAE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MOTIVATION; ORYZIAS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 84924412615     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005009     Document Type: Article

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