Is there convergence in the molecular pathways underlying the repeated evolution of sociality in African cichlids?

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 160-168

  O'Connor, Constance M ^a   Marsh Rollo, Susan E ^a   Ghio, Sergio Cortez ^b   Balshine, Sigal ^a   Aubin Horth, Nadia ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain; Cichlid; Cooperation; Gene expression; Nonapeptide

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; ISOTOCIN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR; ARGIPRESSIN;

AFRICAN CICHLID; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIALITY; SOCIETY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELEOST; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CICHLIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 84945134339     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.07.008     Document Type: Article

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