Prenatal stress effects in a wild, long-lived primate: Predictive adaptive responses in an unpredictable environment

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1839, 2016, Pages

  Berghänel, Andreas ^a   Heistermann, Michael ^b   Schülke, Oliver ^a,b   Ostner, Julia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Developmental constraints; Developmental origins of health and disease; Gestational stress; Life history; Resource allocation; Silver spoon

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

MACACA ASSAMENSIS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MACACA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MACACA; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REPRODUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84989172063     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1304     Document Type: Article

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