Stress and aversive learning in a wild vertebrate: The role of corticosterone in mediating escape from a novel stressor

American Naturalist

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-60

  Thaker, Maria ^a,b   Vanak, Abi T ^b,c   Lima, Steven L ^a   Hews, Diana K ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipredator behavior; Corticosterone; Learning; Lizard; Metyrapone; Stress response

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT; LEARNING; LIZARD; MEMORY; STEROID; WILD POPULATION;

SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

CORTICOSTERONE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; METYRAPONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LIZARD; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; LIZARDS; MALE; METYRAPONE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77449098273     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648558     Document Type: Article

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