Coloration signals the ability to cope with elevated stress hormones: Effects of corticosterone on growth of barn owls are associated with melanism

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1189-1199

  Almasi, B ^a   Roulin, A ^b   Korner Nievergelt, F ^a,c   Jenni Eiermann, S ^a   Jenni, L ^a  

^a SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c Oikostat ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Barn owl; Corticosterone; Glucocorticoids; Growth; Melanin; Polymorphism; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; EUMELANIN; HORMONE; MELANIN;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; COLOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HERITABILITY; HORMONE; MELANISM; NESTLING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLEIOTROPY; POLYMORPHISM; RAPTOR; SIGNALING; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; COLOR; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; NESTING; OWL; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COLOR; CORTICOSTERONE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HORMONES; MALE; MELANINS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRIGIFORMES; WING;

ANIMALIA; STRIGIFORMES; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 84861198987     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02508.x     Document Type: Article

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