ReviewIntegrative and comparative biology2013
Social regulation of male reproductive plasticity in an African cichlid fish.
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- Expression of novel androgen receptors in three GnRH neuron subtypes in the cichlid brain.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Control of social status by sex steroids: insights from teleost fishes.Molecular psychology : brain, behavior, and society · 2023Article
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- Sexual Dimorphism in Aggression: Sex-Specific Fighting Strategies Across Species.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Brain transcriptomics of agonistic behaviour in the weakly electric fish Gymnotus omarorum, a wild teleost model of non-breeding aggression.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Adaptive reshaping of the hormonal phenotype after social niche transition in adulthood.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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- Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) implicated in plasticity of the reproductive axis during social status transitions.General and comparative endocrinology · 2019Article
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor signaling mitigates the impact of acute social stress.Neuropharmacology · 2019Article
- Male dominance status regulates odor-evoked processing in the forebrain of a cichlid fish.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The intestinal environment as an evolutionary adaptation to mouthbrooding in the Astatotilapia burtoni cichlid.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2019Article
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Social interactions with the outcome of a position in a dominance hierarchy can have profound effects on reproductive behavior and physiology, requiring animals to integrate environmental information with their internal physiological state; but how is salient information from the animal's dynamic social environment transformed into adaptive behavioral, physiological, and molecular-level changes? The African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni, is ideally suited to understand socially controlled reproductive plasticity because activity of the male reproductive (brain-pituitary-gonad) axis is tightly linked to social status. Males form hierarchies in which a small percentage of brightly colored dominant individuals have an active reproductive axis, defend territories, and spawn with females, while the remaining males are subordinate, drably colored, do not hold a territory, and have a suppressed reproductive system with minimal opportunities for spawning. These social phenotypes are plastic and quickly reversible, meaning that individual males may switch between dominant and subordinate status multiple times within a lifetime. Here, we review the rapid and remarkable plasticity that occurs along the entire reproductive axis when males rise in social rank, a transition that has important implications for the operational sex ratio of the population. When males rise in rank, transformations occur in the brain, pituitary, circulation, and testes over short time-scales (minutes to days). Changes are evident in overt behavior, as well as modifications at the physiological, cellular, and molecular levels that regulate reproductive capacity. Widespread changes triggered by a switch in rank highlight the significance of external social information in shaping internal physiology and reproductive competence.
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