Context dependency of baseline glucocorticoids as indicators of individual quality in a capital breeder

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 191, Issue , 2013, Pages 231-238

  Jaatinen, Kim ^a   Seltmann, Martin W ^b   Hollmén, Tuula ^c,d   Atkinson, Shannon ^c   Mashburn, Kendall ^c   Öst, Markus ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d Alaska Sealife Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline CORT; Body temperature; Context dependent CORT response; CORT fitness hypothesis; Individual quality; Somateria mollissima

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREEDING; CLUTCH SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FECES LEVEL; FEMALE; NEST SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SPECIES HABITAT; STRESS; WEATHER;

BASELINE CORT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTEXT-DEPENDENT CORT RESPONSE; CORT-FITNESS HYPOTHESIS; INDIVIDUAL QUALITY; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; BODY TEMPERATURE; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 84880994563     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.06.022     Document Type: Article

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