A test of maternal programming of offspring stress response to predation risk in threespine sticklebacks

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 122, Issue , 2013, Pages 222-227

  Mommer, Brett C ^a   Bell, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid; HPA axis; Maternal programming; Parental effect; Predators

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LIFESPAN; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MATERNAL TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

GLUCOCORTICOID; HPA AXIS; MATERNAL PROGRAMMING; PARENTAL EFFECT; PREDATORS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84888052927     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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