Benefits and costs of increased levels of corticosterone in seabird chicks

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 140-149

  Kitaysky, A S ^a   Kitaiskaia, E V ^a   Piatt, J F ^b   Wingfield, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Associative learning; Begging; Cognition; Corticosterone; Environmental stress; Juvenile life history traits; Kittiwakes

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0037220880     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0018-506X(02)00030-2     Document Type: Article

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