Fighting experience alters brain androgen receptor expression dependent on testosterone status

Cheng Yu Li, Ryan L. Earley, Shu Ping Huang, Yuying Hsu*

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摘要

Contest decisions are influenced by the outcomes of recent fights (winner–loser effects). Steroid hormones and serotonin are closely associated with aggression and therefore probably also play important roles in mediating winner–loser effects. In mangrove rivulus fish, Kryptolebias marmoratus, individuals with higher testosterone (T), 11-ketotestosterone and cortisol levels are more capable of winning, but titres of these hormones do not directly mediate winner–loser effects. In this study, we investigated the effects of winning/losing experiences on brain expression levels of the receptor genes for androgen (AR), oestrogen α/β (ERα/β), glucocorticoid (GR) and serotonin (5-HT1AR). The effect of contest experience on AR gene expression depended on T levels: repeated losses decreased, whereas repeated wins increased AR gene expression in individuals with low T but not in individuals with medium or high T levels. These results lend strong support for AR being involved in mediating winner–loser effects, which, in previous studies, were more detectable in individuals with lower T. Furthermore, the expression levels of ERα/β, 5-HT1AR and GR genes were higher in individuals that initiated contests against larger opponents than in those that did not. Overall, contest experience, underlying endocrine state and hormone and serotonin receptor expression patterns interacted to modulate contest decisions jointly.

原文英語
文章編號20141532
期刊Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
281
發行號1796
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2014 10月 15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 一般生物化學,遺傳學和分子生物學
  • 一般免疫學和微生物學
  • 一般環境科學
  • 一般農業與生物科學

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