ArticleBehavioral and brain functions : BBF2015
Zebrafish sexual behavior: role of sex steroid hormones and prostaglandins.
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- Adult sex change leads to extensive forebrain reorganization in clownfish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Zebrafish gonad mutant models reveal neuroendocrine mechanisms of brain sexual dimorphism and male mating behaviors of different brain regions.Biology of sex differences · 2023Article
- Control of social status by sex steroids: insights from teleost fishes.Molecular psychology : brain, behavior, and society · 2023Article
- Prostaglandin ECommunications biology · 2022Article
- Effects ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- High-speed camera recordings uncover previously unidentified elements of zebrafish mating behaviors integral to successful fertilization.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Role of Habenula in Social and Reproductive Behaviors in Fish: Comparison With Mammals.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Associations Between Dietary Inflammatory Index and Sex Hormones Among 6- to 19-Year-Old Children and Adolescents in NHANES 2015-2016.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Article
- Transcriptome profiling analysis of sex-based differentially expressed mRNAs and lncRNAs in the brains of mature zebrafish (Danio rerio).BMC genomics · 2019Article
- Bpifcl modulates kiss2 expression under the influence of 11-ketotestosterone in female zebrafish.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- GnRH-mediated olfactory and visual inputs promote mating-like behaviors in male zebrafish.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundMating behavior differ between sexes and involves gonadal hormones and possibly sexually dimorphic gene expression in the brain. Sex steroids and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) have been shown to regulate mammalian sexual behavior. The present study was aimed at determining whether exposure to sex steroids and prostaglandins could alter zebrafish sexual mating behavior.
methodsMating behavior and successful spawning was recorded following exposure to 17β-estradiol (E2), 11-ketotestosterone (11-KT), prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) and PGE2 via the water. qRT-PCR was used to analyze transcript levels in the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain of male and female zebrafish and compared to animals exposed to E2 via the water.
resultsExposure of zebrafish to sex hormones resulted in alterations in behavior and spawning when male fish were exposed to E2 and female fish were exposed to 11-KT. Exposure to PGD2, and PGE2 did not alter mating behavior or spawning success. Determination of gene expression patterns of selected genes from three brain regions using qRT-PCR analysis demonstrated that the three brain regions differed in gene expression pattern and that there were differences between the sexes. In addition, E2 exposure also resulted in altered gene transcription profiles of several genes.
conclusionsExposure to sex hormones, but not prostaglandins altered mating behavior in zebrafish. The expression patterns of the studied genes indicate that there are large regional and gender-based differences in gene expression and that E2 treatment alter the gene expression pattern in all regions of the brain.
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