A study of the effects of prolactin and testosterone on the parental behaviour of the male stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L.
Male stickleback did not show a greater increase in displacement or parental fanning when injected with prolactin than they did when injected with saline solvent alone. Displacement fanning was higher in gonadectomized fish with pituitary activity suppressed by short photoperiod than in gonadectomiz...
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University of British Columbia
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39706 |