Baseline corticosterone peaks in shorebirds with maximal energy stores for migration: A general preparatory mechanism for rapid behavioral and metabolic transitions?

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 118-126

  Piersma, Theunis ^a,b   Reneerkens, Jeroen ^a,b,c   Ramenofsky, Marilyn ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Environmental unpredictability; Migration; Shorebirds; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FLYING; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033757553     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.2000.7543     Document Type: Article

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