Are birds stressed during long-term flights? A wind-tunnel study on circulating corticosterone in the red knot

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 164, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 101-106

  Jenni Eiermann, Susanne ^a   Hasselquist, Dennis ^b   Lindström, Åke ^b   Koolhaas, Anita ^c   Piersma, Theunis ^c,d  

^a SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Endurance flight; Migration; Stress response; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENDURANCE; FLIGHT; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SONGBIRD; WIND;

EID: 70350020417     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.05.014     Document Type: Article

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