Rearing conditions have long-term consequences for stress responsiveness in free-living great tits

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-224

  Landys, Meta M ^a   Goymann, Wolfgang ^b   Slagsvold, Tore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adrenocortical stress response; Corticosterone; Rearing conditions

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PARUS MAJOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 80054114239     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.08.022     Document Type: Article

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