Publications

Rodgers EW, Earley RL, Grober M.S. (2007) Social status determines sexual phenotype in the bi-directional sex changing bluebanded goby (Lythrypnus dalli) Journal of Fish Biology 70:1660-1668.

Earley, R.L., J.T. Edwards*, O. Aseem, K.Felton, L.S. Blumer, M. Karom and M. S. Grober (2006) Social interactions tune aggression and stress responsiveness in a territorial cichlid fish (Archocentrus nigrofasciatus). Physiology and Behavior, 88: 353 – 363.

Scaggiante, M., M.S. Grober, V. Lorenzi and M.B. Rasotto (2006) Variability of GnRH secretion in two goby species with socially controlled alternative male mating tactics. Hormones and Behavior 50:107-117.

Rodgers EW, Earley RL, Grober M.S. (2006) Elevated 11- ketotestosterone during paternal behavior in the Bluebanded goby (Lythrypnus dalli). Hormones and Behavior 49: 610-614.

Lorenzi, V., R.L. Earley, and M.S. Grober (2006) Preventing behavioural interactions with a male facilitates sex change in female bluebanded gobies Lythrypnus dalli. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59:715-722.

Black, M.P., J. Balthazart, M. Baillien and M.S. Grober. (2005)Socially induced and rapid increases in aggression are inversely related to brain aromatase activity in a sex-changing fish, Lythrypnus dalli. P Roy Soc Lond B Bio 272: 2435-2440.

Black, M.P., T.B Moore, A.V.M. Canario, D. Ford, R.H. Reavis and M.S. Grober. (2005) Reproduction in context: Field-testing a lab model of socially controlled sex change in Lythrypnus dalli, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 318: 127–143.

Schuett, G.W., D.L. Hardy, H.W. Grene, R.L.Earley,M.S. Grober, E.A. Van Kirk, and W.J. Murdoch. (2005) Sympatric species of rattlesnakes with contrasting mating systems show differences in seasonal patterns of plasma sex steroids. Animal Behavior 70: 257-266.

Drilling, C., and M.S. Grober. (2005) An initial description of alternative male reproductive tactics in the bluebanded goby, Lythrypnus dalli. Environmental Biology of Fishes 72: 361–372.

Rodgers, E.W., S. Drane, and M.S. Grober. (2005) Sex reversal in pairs of Lythrypnus dalli: behavioral and morphological changes. Biological Bulletin: 208 120-126.

Scaggiante, M., M. S. Grober, V. Lorenzi and M.B. Rasotto (2004). Changes along the male reproductive axis in response to social context in a gonochoristic gobiid, Zosterisessor ophiocephalus (Teleostei, Gobiidae) with alternative mating tactics.  Hormones and Behavior 46:607-617.

Schuett, G.W., M.S. Grober, E.A. Van Kirk, and W.J. Murdoch (2004). Long-term sperm storage and plasma steroid profile of pregnancy in a Western Diamond-backed rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox).  Herp. Review 35: 328-333.

Stokes, E.A., W. Lonergan, L.P. Weber, D.M. Janz, A.A. Poznanski, G.C. Balch, C.D. Metcalfe and M.S. Grober (2004) Decreased apoptosis in the forebrain of adult male medaka (Oryzias latipes) after aqueous exposure to ethinylestradiol. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C. 138:163-167.

Earley, R., L. Blumer and M.S. Grober. (2004) The gall of subordination: changes in gall bladder function associated with social stress. P Roy Soc Lond B Bio 271: 7-13.

Black, M., R. Reavis and M.S. Grober. (2004) Sex differences in behavior and isotocin in a sex-changing vertebrate. Neuroreport 1:185-189.

Carneiro, L.A., R.F. Oliveira, A.V.M Canário and M.S. Grober. (2003) The effect of arginine vasotocin on courtship behaviour in a blenniid fish with alternative reproductive tactics. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry28: 241–243, 2003.

M.P. Black and M.S. Grober (2003). Group sex, sex change and parasitic males: Sexual strategies among the fishes and their neurobiological correlates.  Ann. Rev. Sex Res. 14: 160-184.

Miranda, J.A., R.F. Oliveira, L.A. Carneiro, R.S. Santos, and M.S. Grober (2003) Neurochemical Correlates of Male Polymorphism and Alternative Reproductive Tactics in the Azorean Rock-Pool Blenny, Parablennius parvicornis.  Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 132: 183-189.

Perry, A.N. and M.S. Grober (2003) A Model for Social Control of Sex Change: Interactions of behavior, neuropeptides, glucocorticoids and sex steroids. Hormones and Behavior 43: 31-38.

Grober, M.S., and A.H. Bass (2002) Life history, neuroendocrinology and behavior in fish.  IN, Hormones, Brain and Behavior (Academic Press, NY), D. Pfaff, A.P. Arnold, A. M. Etgen, S. E. Fahrbach, R. T. Rubin, and L. Frank eds.

Grober, M.S., A.A. George, K.K. Watkins, L.A. Carneiro & R.F. Oliveira (2002) Forebrain AVT and courtship in a fish with male alternative reproductive tactics. Brain Research Bulletin 57:423-425.

Oliveira, R.F., N. Carvalho, J. Miranda, E. J. Gonçalves, M.S. Grober & R. S. Santos (2002)  The relationship between the presence of satellite males and nest-holders' mating success in the Azorean rock-pool blenny Parablennius sanguinolentus parvicornis. Ethology 108: 223-235.

R.F. Oliveira, L.A. Carneiro, D.M. Gonçalves, A.V.M. Canário & M.S. Grober (2001) Effects of 11-Ketotestosterone inhibits the alternative mating tactic in sneaker males of the peacock blenny, Salaria pavo, Brain Behavior and Evolution 58:28-37.

Bass, A.H. and M.S. Grober (2001) Social and neural modulation of sexual plasticity in teleost fish.  Brain Behavior and Evolution 57: 293-300.

Oliveira, R.F., L.A. Carneiro,  A.V.M. Canario and M.S. Grober (2001)  Effects of androgens on social behavior and morphology of alternative reproductive males in the Azorean rock-pool blenny.  Hormones and Behavior 39: 157-166.

Oliveira, R.F., A.V.M. Canario and M.S. Grober (2001)  Male sexual polymorphism, alternative reproductive tactics, and androgens in combtooth blennies (Pisces: Blenniidae).  Hormones and Behavior 40: 266-275.

Oliveira, R.F., A.V.M. Canario, M.S. Grober and R.S. Santos (2001)  Endocrine correlates of male polymorphism and alternative reproductive tactics in the Azorean rock-pool blenny, Parablennius sanguinolentus parvicornis..  Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 121: 278-288.

Oliveira, R.F., J. Miranda , N. Carvalho, E. J. Gonçalves, M.S. Grober and R. S. Santos (2000) Male mating success in the Azorean rock-pool blenny: the effects of body size, male behaviour and nest characteristics.  J. Fish Biol. 57: 1416-1428.

Schuett, G.W. and M.S. Grober. (2000) Post-fight plasma lactate and corticosterone levels in male copperheads, Agkistrodon contortrix (Serpentes, Viperidae): Differences between winners and losers. Physiol. Behav. 71:335-341.

Carlisle, S. L., S.K. Marxer-Miller, A. Canario, R.F. Oliveira, L.A. Carneiro, and M.S. Grober. (2000) Effects of 11-ketotestosterone on genital papilla morphology in the sex changing fish, Lythrypnus dalli. J. Fish. Biol. 57:445-456.

Godwin, J., R. Sawby, R.R. Warner, D. Crews and M.S. Grober. (2000) Hypothalamic arginine vasotocin mRNA abundance variation across sexes and with sex change in a coral reef fish.  Brain, Behav. Evol. 55:77-84.

Reavis, R.H. and M.S. Grober. (1999) An integrative approach to sex change: social, behavioural and neurochemical changes in Lythrypnus dalli (Pisces). Acta Ethologica. 2: 51-60.