Density triggers maternal hormones that increase adaptive offspring growth in a wild mammal

Science

Volumn 340, Issue 6137, 2013, Pages 1215-1217

  Dantzer, Ben ^a,g   Newman, Amy E M ^b   Boonstra, Rudy ^c   Palme, Rupert ^d   Boutin, Stan ^e   Humphries, Murray M ^f   McAdam, Andrew G ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE; MATERNAL EFFECT; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT; VOCALIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; MAMMAL; MATERNAL CARE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; POPULATION DENSITY; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SCIURIDAE; VOCALIZATION; WINTER;

MAMMALIA; TAMIASCIURUS;

EID: 84878762061     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1235765     Document Type: Article

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