Baseline and stress-induced glucocorticoid concentrations are not repeatable but covary within individual great tits (Parus major)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 208, Issue , 2014, Pages 154-163

  Baugh, Alexander T ^a,b   Oers, Kees van ^c   Dingemanse, Niels J ^b,d   Hau, Michaela ^b,e  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Endocrine stress response; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Multi level variation; Repeatability; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARUS MAJOR; PHENOTYPE; STRESS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84907525781     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.08.014     Document Type: Article

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