Stress and parental care: Prolactin responses to acute stress throughout the breeding cycle in a long-lived bird

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-13

  Riou, Samuel ^a   Chastel, Olivier ^b   Lacroix, André ^b   Hamer, Keith C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Breeding cycle; Corticosterone; Life history; Parental effort; Stress response

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; MALE; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFINUS PUFFINUS; REARING; SEABIRD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 77953715747     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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