Physiological indices of stress in wild and captive garter snakes: Correlations, repeatability, and ecological variation

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 174, Issue , 2014, Pages 11-17

  Sparkman, Amanda M ^a   Bronikowski, Anne M ^b   Williams, Shelby ^b   Parsai, Shikha ^b   Manhart, Whitney ^b   Palacios, Maria G ^c  

^a WESTMONT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Captivity; Corticosterone; Leukocyte ratios; Stress; Thamnophis elegans

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ECOTYPE; FEMALE; HETEROPHIL LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SNAKE; THAMNOPHIS ELEGANS; WILD ANIMAL; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COLUBRIDAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRASSLAND; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; LAKE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASON; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY; ZOO ANIMAL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANIMALS, ZOO; ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALIFORNIA; COLUBRIDAE; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GRASSLAND; LAKES; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84899076927     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2014.03.023     Document Type: Article

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