Age-related variation in the adrenocortical response to stress in nestling white storks (Ciconia ciconia) supports the developmental hypothesis

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 172-180

  Blas, Julio ^a   Baos, Raquel ^b   Bortolotti, Gary R ^a   Marchant, Tracy A ^a   Hiraldo, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age; Corticosterone; Development; Developmental Hypothesis; Ontogeny; Stress; White stork Ciconia ciconia

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CICONIA CICONIA; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DIET RESTRICTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; WEATHER;

EID: 33746740422     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2006.02.011     Document Type: Article

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