Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites and alarm calling in free-living yellow-bellied marmots

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-32

  Blumstein, Daniel T ^a   Patton, Marilyn L ^b   Saltzman, Wendy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm calling; Glucocorticoids; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ALARM SIGNAL; METABOLITE;

ALARM MONITOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIURIDAE; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; MARMOTA; MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 33644907470     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0405     Document Type: Article

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