Developmental stress has sex-specific effects on nestling growth and adult metabolic rates but no effect on adult body size or body composition in song sparrows

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 3207-3217

  Schmidt, Kim L ^a   MacDougall Shackleton, Elizabeth A ^a   MacDougall Shackleton, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerobic capacity; Basal metabolic rate; Bird; Corticosterone; Glucocorticoid; Metabolic scope; Peak metabolic rate; Plasticity; Songbird; Standard metabolic rate

Indexed keywords

CORTISONE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPARROW; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOCALIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CORTISONE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPARROWS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; PASSERI;

EID: 84865752759     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.068965     Document Type: Article

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