Effects of social environment on baseline glucocorticoid levels in a communally breeding rodent, the colonial tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sociabilis)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 566-572

  Woodruff, Julie A ^a   Lacey, Eileen A ^a   Bentley, George E ^a   Kriegsfeld, Lance J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ctenomys; Glucocorticoids; Plural breeding; Social environment; Tuco tucos

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTENOMYS SOCIABILIS; FECES LEVEL; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DOMINANCE; STRESS;

CTENOMYS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; PLURAL BREEDING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TUCO-TUCOS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; RODENTIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84884255174     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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