A sterol-like odorant in the urine of Mozambique tilapia males likely signals social dominance to females.

Many species of freshwater fish with relatively simple mating strategies release hormonally derived sex pheromones in urine. However, it is not known whether species with more complex reproductive strategies use specialized urinary chemical signals. We addressed this by using the Mozambique tilapia...

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Main Author: Barata, Eduardo N. (author)
Other Authors: Fine, Jared M. (author), Hubbard, Peter C. (author), Almeida, Olinda G. (author), Frade, Pedro (author), Sorensen, Peter W. (author), Canário, Adelino V.M. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2008
Subjects:
fish
pheromone
behaviour
social behaviour
dominance
reproduction
teleost
freshwater
Mozambique tilapia
cichlid
liquid chromatography
mass spectrometry
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1094
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/1094

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http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1094

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