The corticosterone stress response in Gentoo and King Penguins during the non-fasting period

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 850-854

  Holberton, Rebecca L ^a,b   Helmuth, Brian ^b   Wingfield, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

corticosterone; Gentoo Penguins; glucocorticoid; King Penguins; penguin; stress

Indexed keywords

APTENODYTES PATAGONICUS; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 0030446079     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369869     Document Type: Article

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