The "Sexual Dimorphism In The Teleost Central Nervous System..." Paper Is Submitted

I submitted the shiner brains paper to the journal NeuroReport an hour ago. It's already evening in London, where the editorial office is, so I don't expect to hear back from them until next week. Hopefully they'll put it out on review and we'll see what happens. It's much different from what we submitted last June, looking at breeeding season brain volume vs. standard length for each of three species and also at the amount of n-methyl d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors in the brains of individuals of the same three species, all broken down by sex. Only the sexually dimorphic scarlet shiner shows statistically significant male/females differences for both measures.

As a follow-up, hopefully we can do the same thing for non-breeding season individuals of all three species. This means, of course, collecting fresh individuals from our two collecting sites. I'd like to go to Sipsey Fork to collect silverstripe shiners the first week of January (water levels permitting), and we'll be going back to Estill Fork on January 16 anyway for driftnetting. (Andrew, let me know if you're up for this about January 5.)