Physiological stress mediates the honesty of social signals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Bortolotti, Gary R ^a   Mougeot, Francois ^b,c   Martinez Padilla, Jesus ^d   Webster, Lucy M I ^d   Piertney, Stuart B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEATHER; HORMONAL REGULATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS SCOTICUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SIGNAL DETECTION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GALLIFORMES; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS SCOTICUS; TETRAONIDAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEATHERS; GALLIFORMES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 63449130018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004983     Document Type: Article

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