An acute increase in the stress hormone corticosterone is associated with mating behavior in both male and female red-spotted newts, Notophthalmus viridescens

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 208, Issue , 2014, Pages 57-63

  Reedy, Aaron M ^a   Edwards, Alex ^a   Pendlebury, Chloe ^a   Murdaugh, Laura ^a,b   Avery, Ryan ^a   Seidenberg, Jake ^a   Aspbury, Andrea S ^a,c   Gabor, Caitlin R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Texas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Courtship; Glucocorticoid; Mating; Notophthalmus viridescens; Water borne hormone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; STRESS HORMONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FORAGING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; MALE; MATING; MATING SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS; PREDICTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; MALE; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84907480630     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.08.008     Document Type: Article

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