The effect of stress and stress hormones on dynamic colour-change in a sexually dichromatic Australian frog

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 223-227

  Kindermann, Christina ^a   Narayan, Edward J ^a   Wild, Francis ^a   Wild, Clyde H ^a   Hero, Jean Marc ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breeding; Dynamic colour change; Hormones; Litoria wilcoxii; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANURA; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STRESS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CITRUS LIMON; LITORIA LESUEURII; LITORIA WILCOXII; MYOBATRACHIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84875839184     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.03.011     Document Type: Article

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