Neuropeptide B mediates female sexual receptivity in medaka fish, acting in a female-specific but reversible manner

Male and female animals display innate sex-specific mating behaviors. In teleost fish, altering the adult sex steroid milieu can effectively reverse sex-typical mating behaviors, suggesting remarkable sexual lability of their brains as adults. In the teleost medaka, neuropeptide B (NPB) is expressed...

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Hauptverfasser:	Towako Hiraki-Kajiyama, Junpei Yamashita, Keiko Yokoyama, Yukiko Kikuchi, Mikoto Nakajo, Daichi Miyazoe, Yuji Nishiike, Kaito Ishikawa, Kohei Hosono, Yukika Kawabata-Sakata, Satoshi Ansai, Masato Kinoshita, Yoshitaka Nagahama, Kataaki Okubo
Format:	Artigo
Sprache:	Inglês
Veröffentlicht:	eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-08-01
Schriftenreihe:	eLife
Schlagworte:	neuropeptide B sexual dimorphism sexual lability sex steroid mating behavior female receptivity
Online-Zugang:	https://elifesciences.org/articles/39495
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