Urinary corticosterone metabolite responses to capture and handling in two closely related species of free-living Fijian frogs

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-61

  Narayan, Edward J ^a   Cockrem, John F ^b   Hero, Jean Marc ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Ecology; Micro habitat; Platymantis vitiana; Platymantis vitiensis; Predation; Rhinella marina; Stress response; Variation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CREATININE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ANURA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; PLATYMANTIS VITIANA; PLATYMANTIS VITIENSIS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINELLA MARINA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; STEROID URINE LEVEL; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84860514088     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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