Corticosterone stress response shows long-term repeatability and links to personality in free-living Nazca boobies

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 208, Issue , 2014, Pages 39-48

  Grace, Jacquelyn K ^a   Anderson, David J ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping style; Glucocorticoid; Personality; Plasticity; Stress response

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIELD STUDY; GARDENING; MALE; MARK RECAPTURE; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; SEX; SHAKING; SOCIAL AGGRESSION; SOCIAL GARDENING; SOCIAL SHAKING; STRESS; SULA GRANTI; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; BIRD; BLOOD; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PERSONALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84916627190     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.08.020     Document Type: Article

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