Adrenocortical stress responses influence an invasive vertebrate's fitness in an extreme environment

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1768, 2013, Pages

  Jessop, Tim S ^a   Letnic, Mike ^b   Webb, Jonathan K ^c   Dempster, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute stress response; Adaptive phenotypic performance; Extreme environments; Fitness; Glucocorticoid hormones; Survival

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; PHARMACOLOGY;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DEHYDRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXTREME EVENT; FITNESS; HORMONE; INVASIVE SPECIES; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RANGE EXPANSION; STEROID; SURVIVAL; TOAD; VULNERABILITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; BUFO MARINUS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENT; HEAT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METABOLISM; OSMOREGULATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BLOOD; BUFO MARINUS; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENT; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; HOT TEMPERATURE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LINEAR MODELS; METABOLISM; OSMOREGULATION; PHARMACOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY; TANAMI DESERT;

EID: 84900527063     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1444     Document Type: Article

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