Spontaneous egg or chick abandonment in energy-depleted king penguins: A role for corticosterone and prolactin?

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-60

  Groscolas, René ^a   Lacroix, André ^b   Robin, Jean Patrice ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Brooding; Corticosterone; Egg chick abandonment; Energy depletion; Fasting; Incubation; Prolactin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BIRD; BODY CONSTITUTION; BREEDING; BREEDING SUCCESS; CHICK; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPLETION; DIET RESTRICTION; EGG; ENERGY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PENGUIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REFEEDING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; CORTICOSTERONE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FASTING; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PROLACTIN; REPRODUCTION; SPHENISCIDAE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; URIC ACID;

EID: 37349031055     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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