The acoustic expression of stress in a songbird: Does corticosterone drive isolation-induced modifications of zebra finch calls?

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 573-581

  Perez, Emilie C ^a   Elie, Julie E ^a,c   Soulage, Christophe O ^b   Soula, Hédi A ^b   Mathevon, Nicolas ^a   Vignal, Clémentine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Distress; Emotion; Playback; Prosody; Social separation; Taeniopygia guttata; Vocal flexibility

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; FINCH; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOFTWARE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84859110999     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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