Are baseline and short-term corticosterone stress responses in free-living amphibians repeatable?

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-28

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

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Fitness; Individual variation; Non invasive; Repeatability; Stressors; Survival; Urine

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HUMAN; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; METABOLITE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; STANDARD; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84870231329     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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