Coping with intense reproductive aggression in male arctic ground squirrels: The stress axis and its signature tell divergent stories

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 417-428

  Delehanty, Brendan ^a   Boonstra, Rudy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FATTY ACID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BLOOD; BREEDING SEASON; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOBILIZATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RODENT; SEX HORMONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; CANADA; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SCIURIDAE; SEASON;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY COMPOSITION; DEXAMETHASONE; FATTY ACIDS; HEMATOCRIT; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; REPRODUCTION; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; YUKON TERRITORY;

ANIMALIA; SPERMOPHILUS PARRYII;

EID: 80051520889     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660809     Document Type: Article

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