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
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