Stressful dieting: Nutritional conditions but not compensatory growth elevate corticosterone levels in zebra finch nestlings and fledglings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Honarmand, Mariam ^a,b   Goymann, Wolfgang ^c   Naguib, Marc ^a,d  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CATCH UP GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FINCH; FLEDGLING; FOOD QUALITY; HINDLIMB; MALE; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 77958586105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012930     Document Type: Article

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