Variable neuroendocrine responses to ecologically-relevant challenges in sticklebacks

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-25

  Bell, Alison M ^a   Backström, Tobias ^b   Huntingford, Felicity A ^c   Pottinger, Tom G ^d   Winberg, Svante ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aggression; Antipredator behavior; Behavioral syndromes; Coping styles; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Glucocorticoid; Individual differences; Serotonin; Stickleback; Stress

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; BRAIN MONOAMINE; DOPAMINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; HYDROCORTISONE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FISH; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INTERRENAL GLAND; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRESS;

EID: 34247343728     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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