Hormonal control of brood care and social status in a cichlid fish with brood care helpers

We studied the role of steroid hormones for parental and alloparental brood care and social status in a cooperatively breeding fish. We measured excretion levels of testosterone and 11-ketotestosterone in males, estradiol-17β in females and cortisol in both sexes at different stages of the breeding...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bender, N. (author)
Outros Autores: Heg-Bachar, Z. (author), Oliveira, R. F. (author), Canario, Adelino V. M. (author), Taborsky, M. (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2014
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3933
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:sapientia.ualg.pt:10400.1/3933