What factors drive prolactin and corticosterone responses to stress in a long-lived bird species (Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea)?

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 590-602

  Angelier, Frédéric ^a,b   Moe, Børge ^c,d   Blanc, Samuel ^a   Chastel, Olivier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; PROLACTIN;

ADAPTATION; BODY CONDITION; FITNESS; HORMONE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INCUBATION; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; PARENTAL CARE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEABIRD;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; BLOOD; BREEDING; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SECRETION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BREEDING; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROLACTIN; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

AVES; PAGODROMA NIVEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67649645302     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/603634     Document Type: Review

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