The corticosterone stress response and mercury contamination in free-living tree swallows, Tachycineta bicolor

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 514-521

  Franceschini, Melinda D ^a   Lane, Oksana P ^b   Evers, David C ^b   Reed, J Michael ^a   Hoskins, Bart ^c   Romero, L Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Mercury; Stress; Tree swallows

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MERCURY;

BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEATHER; HORMONE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PASSERINE; PLASMA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EGG; FEATHER; FEMALE; MALE; MERCURIALISM; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SWALLOW (BIRD); UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; MAINE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MERCURY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SWALLOWS;

TACHYCINETA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 67650716748     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-009-0309-2     Document Type: Article

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