Endocrine responses to unpredictable environmental events: Stress or anti-stress hormones?

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 600-609

  Wingfield, John C ^a   Kitaysky, Alexander S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0036625760     PISSN: 00031569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/42.3.600     Document Type: Conference Paper

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