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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Hiraki-Kajiyama T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6684226 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20190806
Male and female animals display innate sex-specific mating behaviors. In teleost fish, altering the adult sex steroid milieu can effectively reverse sex-typical mating behaviors, suggesting remarkable sexual lability of their brains as adults. In the teleost medaka, neuropeptide B (NPB) is expressed female-specifically in the brain nuclei implicated in mating behavior. Here, we demonstrate that NPB is a direct mediator of estrogen action on female mating behavior, acting in a female-specific but ...[more]