Glucocorticoids, individual quality and reproductive investment in a passerine bird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1239-1247

  Patterson, Stephen H ^a   Winkler, David W ^b   Breuner, Creagh W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Handicap; Individual quality; Mechanisms of behaviour; Offspring provisioning rate; Parental behaviour; Stress; Tachycineta bicolor; Tree swallow

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOENERGETICS; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FOOD PROVISIONING; HANDICAP PRINCIPLE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; STEROID;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; TACHYCINETA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 79957680072     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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