Human pharmaceuticals are pollutants of special concern due to their widespread
consumption over the last decades, their high persistence in the environment, and the …

Stress inhibits feeding behavior in all vertebrates. Data from mammals suggest an important
role for hypothalamic neuropeptides, in particular the melanocortins and corticotropin …

The 'social brain hypothesis' proposes a causal link between social complexity and either
brain size or the size of key brain parts known to be involved in cognitive processing and …

Stressful housing conditions like social isolation have been shown to profoundly affect the
physiology and health of various organisms which is rarely addressed in fish species. In the …

A number of primary and secondary features used as stress indicators in fish were
investigated in red sea bream, Pagrus major exposed to different photoperiod regimes. In …

After its introduction for scientific investigation in the 1950s, the cypriniform zebrafish, Danio
rerio, has become a valuable model for the study of regenerative processes and …

Boldness is a personality trait that defines how individuals respond to risky situations and
has clear fitness consequences. Since the adaptive value of boldness is context dependent …

We examined whether brain glucocorticoid receptor (GR) modulation by polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) was involved in the abnormal cortisol response to stress seen in …

Improving the feed conversion ratio (FCR; the amount of feed consumed relative to the
amount of weight gain) can reduce both production costs and environmental impacts of …