The stress of elaborate male traits: Integrating glucocorticoids with androgen-based models of sexual selection

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 85-92

  Leary, Christopher J ^a   Knapp, Rosemary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Elaborate male trait; Endocrine system; Glucocorticoid; Metabolism; Phenotypic variation; Sexual selection; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

EID: 84893382567     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.12.017     Document Type: Article

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