J 2015

Shaking the myth: Body mass, aggression, steroid hormones, and social dominance in wild house mouse

HIADLOVSKA, Z., O. MIKULA, Miloš MACHOLÁN, P. HAMPLOVA, B. Voslajerova BIMOVA et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Shaking the myth: Body mass, aggression, steroid hormones, and social dominance in wild house mouse

Autoři

HIADLOVSKA, Z. (203 Česká republika), O. MIKULA (203 Česká republika), Miloš MACHOLÁN (203 Česká republika, domácí), P. HAMPLOVA (203 Česká republika), B. Voslajerova BIMOVA (203 Česká republika) a K. DANISZOVA (203 Česká republika)

Vydání

GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY, 2015, 0016-6480

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.667

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/15:00094015

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

000366438300003

Klíčová slova anglicky

Aggression; Corticosterone; Dominance; House mouse; Ontogeny; Testosterone

Štítky

Změněno: 13. 3. 2018 13:48, Mgr. Lucie Jarošová, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

In social mammals, the position of a male in the group's hierarchy strongly affects his reproductive success. Since a high social rank is often gained through competition with other males, selection should favour bigger males over smaller ones. We may therefore predict faster growth and/or delayed sexual maturity in dominant males. Likewise, dominants should have higher levels of testosterone, hormone important in many aspects of male dominance. Less obvious is the relationship between dominance and levels of corticosterone but generally higher concentrations are expected in subordinate individuals. We studied body growth, sexual maturation and endocrinal changes in males of two house mouse subspecies, raised in fraternal pairs. Since Mus musculus domesticus is the subspecies which dominates mutual encounters with Mus musculus musculus we predicted higher growth rate, delayed puberty and aggression, and higher testosterone and corticosterone levels in domesticus males compared to musculus. In all comparisons, no differences were found between dominant and subordinate musculus brothers. On the other hand, in M. m. domesticus, dominant males revealed a different growth trajectory and lower corticosterone levels than subordinate males but not delayed puberty and higher testosterone concentrations, thus contradicting our predictions. In inter-subspecific comparisons, musculus males matured earlier but became aggressive at the same time as domesticus males. The musculus testosterone ontogeny suggests that social positions in this subspecies remain unfixed for an extended period and that the increasing levels probably reflect prolonged hierarchy contests. It appears that the ontogeny of behaviour and physiological traits diverge cryptically between the two subspecies. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords