Physiological and fitness correlates of experimentally altered hatching asynchrony magnitude in chicks of a wild seabird

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 198, Issue , 2014, Pages 32-38

  Merkling, Thomas ^a,b   Chastel, Olivier ^a   Blanchard, Pierrick ^a,b   Trouvé, Colette ^a   Hatch, Scott A ^c,d   Danchin, Etienne ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Institute for Seabird Research and Conservation   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Corticosterone; Hatching asynchrony; Sexual dimorphism; Sibling competition

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; HATCHING ASYNCHRONY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SEABIRD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING RELATION; SURVIVAL RATE; WILD TYPE;

AGGRESSION; CORTICOSTERONE; HATCHING ASYNCHRONY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIBLING COMPETITION;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHARADRIIFORMES; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84892455921     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.12.011     Document Type: Article

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