Using the reactive scope model to understand why stress physiology predicts survival during starvation in Galápagos marine iguanas

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 296-299

  Romero, L Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostasis; Glucocorticoids; Reactive scope; Stress; Survival

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ACUTE STRESS; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; EL NINO; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS INTERRENAL SYSTEM; LIZARD; MORTALITY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STARVATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84859888124     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.11.004     Document Type: Review

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