Social odors conveying dominance and reproductive information induce rapid physiological and neuromolecular changes in a cichlid fish.

ABSTRACT: Social plasticity is a pervasive feature of animal behavior. Animals adjust the expression of their social behavior to the daily changes in social life and to transitions between life-history stages, and the ability to change in these ways impacts their Darwinian fitness. This behavioral plasticity may be achieved either by rewiring or by biochemically switching nodes of the neural network underlying the social behavior in response to perceived social information. Independent of the proximate mechanisms, at the neuromolecular level social plasticity relies on the regulation of gene expression, such that different neurogenomic states emerge in response to different social stimuli and the switches between states are orchestrated by signaling pathways that interface the social environment and

ORGANISM(S): Oreochromis mossambicus

SUBMITTER: JosM-CM-) Miguel SimM-CM-5es 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-54468 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress