Brain nonapeptide levels are related to social status and affiliative behaviour in a cooperatively breeding cichlid fish

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Reddon, Adam R ^a,c   O’Connor, Constance M ^a   Marsh Rollo, Susan E ^a   Balshine, Sigal ^a   Gozdowska, Magdalena ^b   Kulczykowska, Ewa ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arginine vasotocin; Dominance; Isotocin; Neolamprologus pulcher; Oxytocin; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928901044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140072     Document Type: Article

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