Predator exposure alters stress physiology in guppies across timescales

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 165-172

  Fischer, Eva K ^a   Harris, Rayna M ^b   Hofmann, Hans A ^b   Hoke, Kim L ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Cortisol; Glucocorticoids; Poecilia reticulata; Predation; Stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GUPPY; HABITUATION; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION; CORTISOL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; POECILIA RETICULATA; PREDATION; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; POECILIA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER;

EID: 84892456106     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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