Seasonal and altitudinal effects on glucocorticoid metabolites in a wild primate (Theropithecus gelada)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 508-514

  Beehner, Jacinta C ^a   McCann, Colleen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CONSORTIUM IN EVOLUTIONARY PRIMATOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Geladas; Hormone; Rainfall; Steroids; Stress; Temperature; Validation

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE METABOLISM; HYPOTHESIS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES; THEROPITHECUS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HORMONES; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEASONS; THEROPITHECUS;

EID: 53049097421     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.07.022     Document Type: Article

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