The relationship between social status, behaviour, growth and steroids in male helpers and breeders of a cooperatively breeding cichlid

We tested whether subordinate helper males of the Lake Tanganyika cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher show elevated excretion levels of the stress hormone cortisol and reduced levels of 11-ketotestosterone and testosterone when living in groups with a small breeder male, compared t...

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Main Author: Bender, Nicole (author)
Other Authors: Heg, Dik (author), Hamilton, Ian M. (author), Bachar, Zina (author), Taborsky, Michael (author), Oliveira, Rui Filipe (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Social dominance
Steroid hormones
Androgens
Submissive behaviour
Honest signals
Fish
Neolamprologus pulcher
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/1287
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ispa.pt:10400.12/1287

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/1287

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