Should I stay or should I go? Hormonal control of nest abandonment in a long-lived bird, the Adélie penguin

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 762-768

  Spée, Marion ^a   Beaulieu, Michaël ^a   Dervaux, Antoine ^a   Chastel, Olivier ^b   Le Maho, Yvon ^a   Raclot, Thierry ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Incubation success; Long term fasting; Parental investment; Prolactin; Refeeding signal

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PROLACTIN; URIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; COURTSHIP; DIET RESTRICTION; EGG LAYING; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FEMALE; FORAGING; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PENGUIN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; REFEEDING; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COURTSHIP; FASTING; FEMALE; HORMONES; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVIPARITY; PAIR BOND; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 78349306787     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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