Fish and chips: functional genomics of social plasticity in an African cichlid fish
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Fish and chips: functional genomics of social plasticity in an African cichlid fish.
Behavior and physiology are regulated by both environment and social context. A central goal in the study of the social control of behavior is to determine the underlying physiological, cellular and molecular mechanisms in the brain. The African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni has long been used as a model system to study how social interactions regulate neural and behavioral plasticity. In ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.018242