Corticosterone and pace of life in two life-history ecotypes of the garter snake thamnophis elegans

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 443-448

  Palacios, Maria G ^a   Sparkman, Amanda M ^a,b   Bronikowski, Anne M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Life history; Physiological mechanism; Reptile; Stress; Trade off

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ECOTYPE; FEMALE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; POPULATION BIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SNAKE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; THAMNOPHIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84856083700     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.11.042     Document Type: Article

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