Why do experienced birds reproduce better? Possible endocrine mechanisms in a long-lived seabird, the common tern

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 391-399

  Riechert, Juliane ^a   Chastel, Olivier ^b   Becker, Peter H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Body mass; Breeding experience; Corticosterone; Prolactin; Repeated samples; Sterna hirundo

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; BREEDING SUCCESS; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEABIRD; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84864037487     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.06.022     Document Type: Article

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