Variation in plasma corticosterone in migratory songbirds: A test of the migration-modulation hypothesis

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 695-703

  Wagner, Dominique N ^a   Green, David J ^a   Cooper, John M ^b   Love, Oliver P ^c   Williams, Tony D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b and Associates ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FLOODING; HORMONE; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; MIGRATION; PLASMA; SONGBIRD; STOPOVER;

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CORTICOSTERONE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; SEASONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84907258874     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: 15375293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/676937     Document Type: Article

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