Responses to capture stress and exogenous corticosterone vary with body condition in female red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 748-754

  Dayger, Catherine A ^a   Cease, Arianne J ^b   Lutterschmidt, Deborah I ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body condition; Capture stress; Estradiol; Glucocorticoid; HPA axis; Mating behavior; Receptivity; Reptile

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; CAPTURE STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DOSE RESPONSE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FACE; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; LATENT PERIOD; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; STRESS; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS PARIETALIS;

BODY CONDITION; CAPTURE STRESS; ESTRADIOL; GLUCOCORTICOID; HPA AXIS; MATING BEHAVIOR; RECEPTIVITY; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY CONSTITUTION; COLUBRIDAE; COPULATION; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); LATENCY PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84885724333     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.09.003     Document Type: Article

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