Stress hormone dynamics: An adaptation to migration?

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 480-483

  Nilsson, Anna L K ^a,b   Sandell, Maria I ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Partial migration; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; STRESS HORMONE;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HORMONE; MIGRATION; PASSERINE; STRESS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ALLOSTASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; JUVENILE; MIGRATION MODULATION HYPOTHESIS; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS; SWEDEN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS;

EID: 67849113754     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0193     Document Type: Article

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