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Effects of androgens on social behavior and morphology of alternative reproductive males of the Azorean rock-pool blenny.
Hormones and behavior - 1 Mar 2001
Oliveira R F, Carneiro L A, Canario A V, Grober M S
Abstract excerpt
In the Azorean rock-pool blenny Parablennius sanguinolentus parvicornis two sequential reproductive tactics occur. Larger and older males establish breeding territories, while some of the smaller males become attached to nest-holder territories, acting as satellites on these territories, which they help to defend while trying parasitic fertilizations when females go in the nests to spawn. In the present paper we...
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