Reversed hatching order, body condition and corticosterone levels in chicks of southern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 244-249

  Poisbleau, Maud ^a,b   Demongin, Laurent ^a   Chastel, Olivier ^c   Eens, Marcel ^b   Quillfeldt, Petra ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Acute stress induced corticosterone level; Baseline corticosterone level; Body condition; Laying sequence; Southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome)

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY SIZE; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EGG LAYING; EUDYPTES CHRYSOCOME; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 77958510667     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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