A waterborne chemical cue from Gulf toadfish, Opsanus beta, prompts pulsatile urea excretion in conspecifics

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• 作者：Jeremy Fulton^a ; Christophe M.R. LeMoine^a ; ^b ; Carol Bucking^a ; ^c ; Kevin V. Brix^d ; Patrick J. Walsh^a ; ^d ; M. Danielle McDonald^d ; ^{dmcdonald@rsmas.miami.edu}
• 关键词：Chemical communication ; Social/territorial signaling ; Ureotely ; Nitrogen excretion ; Urea ; Ammonia ; Serotonin ; Cortisol
• 刊名：Physiology & Behavior
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：15 March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：171
• 期：Complete
• 页码：92-99
• 全文大小：787 K
• 卷排序：171

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We hypothesized that pulsatile urea excretion in naïve toadfish could be triggered by waterborne cues from a conspecific Naïve fish pulse urea within 7 h when exposed to seawater that held a conspecific and 20 h in response to clean seawater Ammonia but not urea, cortisol of 5-HT could be one component of a multi-component cue Further studies are needed to fully identify the chemical cue as well as determine the adaptive significance