Linking sex differences in corticosterone with individual reproductive behaviour and hatch success in two species of uniparental shorebirds

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 169-176

  Edwards, Darryl B ^a   Chin, Eunice H ^b   Burness, Gary ^b   Gilchrist, H Grant ^c   Schulte Hostedde, Albrecht I ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baseline corticosterone; Nest abandonment; Nest defence; Reproductive success; Stress induced corticosterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BIRDS BY NESTING BEHAVIOR; BODY MASS; CALIDRIS FUSCICOLLIS; FEMALE; HATCHING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOREBIRD; STRESS;

AVES; CALIDRIS FUSCICOLLIS; PHALAROPUS; PHALAROPUS FULICARIA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 84879599752     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.05.024     Document Type: Article

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