Contextual modulation of social and endocrine correlates of fitness: insights from the life history of a sex changing fish

Steroid hormones are critical regulators of reproductive life history, and the steroid sensitive traits (morphology, behavior, physiology) associated with particular life history stages can have substantial fitness consequences for an organism. Hormones, behavior and fitness are reciprocally associ...

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Main Authors: Devaleena S Pradhan, Tessa K Solomon-Lane, Matthew Scott Grober
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2015.00008/full