Corticosterone mediates the condition-dependent component of melanin-based coloration

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1351-1358

  Roulin, Alexandre ^a   Almasi, Bettina ^b,c   Rossi Pedruzzi, Anya ^a   Ducrest, Anne Lyse ^a   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^d   Miksik, Ivan ^e   Blount, Jonathan D ^f   Jenni Eiermann, Susi ^b   Jenni, Lukas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

barn owl; colour polymorphism; corticosterone; handicap principle; melanin; sexual selection; stress; Tyto alba

Indexed keywords

COLOR; GENETICS; HANDICAP PRINCIPLE; MELANIN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RAPTOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL;

STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 40849145786     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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