Repeatability of baseline corticosterone and short-term corticosterone stress responses, and their correlation with testosterone and body condition in a terrestrial breeding anuran (Platymantis vitiana)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 304-312

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

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Baseline corticosterone; Fitness; Repeatability; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANURA; ARTICLE; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLATYMANTIS VITIANA; STRESS; SURVIVAL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; PLATYMANTIS;

EID: 84876721403     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.03.033     Document Type: Article

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