Evaluating stress in natural populations of vertebrates: Total CORT is not good enough

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-36

  Breuner, Creagh W ^a   Delehanty, Brendan ^b   Boonstra, Rudy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid binding globulin; Field endocrinology; Free hormone hypothesis; Glucocorticoids; Natural animal models; Reservoir hormone hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; OXIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA; STEROID; VERTEBRATE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; MUS; RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84873078136     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12016     Document Type: Article

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