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Context-Specific Effects Of Vasotocin On Social Approach In The Male Common Goldfish, Carassius Auratus, Katharine Torrey
Context-Specific Effects Of Vasotocin On Social Approach In The Male Common Goldfish, Carassius Auratus, Katharine Torrey
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The peptide vasotocin (VT) and its mammalian homologue, vasopressin (VP), produce effects on social behavior that are highly species- and context-specific. We recently sequenced two genes for V1a-like receptors (VTR) in the goldfish brain, one that encodes for a fully-functioning canonical receptor and one that encodes for a non-functional truncated receptor. The current study is an investigation of whether social context may alter expression of these receptor types and thus, potentially, behavioral responses to VT. We used western blotting and immunohistochemistry with custom anti-VTR antibodies to characterize the distribution of VTR throughout the forebrain and the hindbrain. Western blot results …