The prolactin response to an acute stressor in relation to parental care and corticosterone in a short-lived bird, the Eurasian hoopoe

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-29

  Schmid, Baptiste ^a   Chastel, Olivier ^b   Jenni, Lukas ^a  

^a SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Parental care; Prolactin; Reproductive success; Stress response; Upupa epops

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; BROODING; CAPTURE STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HANDLING STRESS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSICALLY INDUCED STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; UPUPA EPOPS;

EID: 80052712217     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.07.012     Document Type: Article

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