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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bender, Nicole (author)
Outros Autores: Heg, Dik (author), Hamilton, Ian M. (author), Bachar, Zina (author), Taborsky, Michael (author), Oliveira, Rui Filipe (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2012
Assuntos:
Social dominance
Steroid hormones
Androgens
Submissive behaviour
Honest signals
Fish
Neolamprologus pulcher
Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/1287
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ispa.pt:10400.12/1287

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

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