Sexual behavior selection

Melanotan II or PT-141 (Palatin Technologies) is a synthetic analog of melanocyte-stimulating hormone (161). The peptide is currently under development as an intranasal formulation for both male and female sexual dysfunction. It is a non-selective melanocortin receptor agonist, which in animals regulates sexual behavior including penile erection, sexual motivation, and in female rats, the secre-... 

Whittier, J. M., Mason, R. T., and Crews, D., 1985, Sexual selection and the effects of mating on sexual behavior in the red-sided garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis, Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.,... 

Short, R. V. (1979). Sexual selection and its component parts, somatic and genital selection, as illustrated by man and the great apes. Advances in the Study of Behavior 9, 131—158. 

Predator-mediated stabilizing selection on sexual signals has long been a major theme of animal behavior research (Endler, 1987 Ryan, 1990 Zuk et al., 1998),... 

Clark, D. C., DeBano, S. J. and Moore, A. J. (1997). The influence of environmental quality on sexual selection in Nauphoeta cinerea (Dictyoptera Blaberidae). Behavioral Ecology 8 46-53. 

Sexual selection in Nauphoeta cinerea inherited mating preference Behavior Genetics 19 717-724. 

Genetic evidence for the good genes process of sexual selection. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 35 235-241. 

Andersson, M. (1994). Monographs in Behavior and Ecology Sexual Selection. 

Grant, A. J., O Connell, R. J. and Eisner, T. (1989). Pheromone-mediated sexual selection in the moth Utetheisa ornatrix olfactory receptor neurons responsive to a male-produced pheromone. Journal of Insect Behavior 2 371-385. 

Most conventional antidepressants lower sexual desire and performance. However, the reversible type A selective MAO inhibitor moclobemide produced intense pathological sexual desire in three men with organic brain disease (two with strokes and one with idiopathic Parkinson s disease) (14). In one man, the hypersexuality was associated with features of pathological jealousy in a paranoid state, but in the other two increased sexuality was an isolated symptom. One of these patients, who had been impotent after the stroke, resorted to telephone sex services, a most uncharacteristic behavior for him. In all cases, the hypersexuality remitted when moclobemide was withdrawn. There have been two previous case reports of moclobemide-induced hypersexuality in women without organic brain disease. This must be a rare adverse effect, but it is possible that in the cases reported here the organic brain disease may have contributed. 

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