The size of a melanin-based plumage ornament correlates with glucocorticoid receptor concentrations in the skin of that ornament

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Lattin, Christine R ^a   Romero, L Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; House sparrow; Hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis; Passer domesticus; Plumage signal

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HORMONE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIGAND; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLUMAGE; PROTEIN; SIGNAL; SKIN;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MELANIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLOR; FEATHER; HYPOTHALAMUS-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS; MALE; METABOLISM; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PLUMAGE SIGNAL; SKIN; SPARROW;

CORTICOSTERONE; HOUSE SPARROW; HYPOTHALAMUS-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PLUMAGE SIGNAL;

ANIMALS; COLOR; FEATHERS; MALE; MELANINS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SKIN; SPARROWS;

EID: 84947735381     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0440     Document Type: Article

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