Changes along the male reproductive axis in response to social context in a gonochoristic gobiid, Zosterisessor ophiocephalus (Teleostei, Gobiidae), with alternative mating tactics

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 607-617

  Scaggiante, Marta ^a   Grober, Matthew S ^b   Lorenzi, Varenka ^b   Rasotto, Maria B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessory gonadal structures; Ejaculate traits; Gonadal investment; Grass goby; Male sexual phenotypes; Preoptic GnRH; Social context

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FOREBRAIN; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPAWNING; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TELEOST; TERRITORIALITY; TESTIS SIZE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PERCIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; PREOPTIC AREA; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TERRITORIALITY; TESTIS;

EID: 8844234873     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2004.06.016     Document Type: Article

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