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Context dependency of baseline glucocorticoids as indicators of individual quality in a capital breeder

Date

Authors

Jaatinen, Kim

Seltmann, Martin W

Hollmen, T

Atkinson, Shannon

Mashburn, Kendall

Ost, Markus

Publisher

Academic Press

Abstract

Identifying markers of individual quality is a central goal of life-history theory and conservation biology. The 'corticosterone (CORT)-fitness hypothesis' postulates that low fitness signals impaired ability to cope with the environment, resulting in ele

Keywords

Keywords: corticosterone; article; body constitution; body temperature; breeding; clutch size; controlled study; corticosterone blood level; feces level; female; nest success; nonhuman; priority journal; reproductive fitness; species habitat; stress; weather Baseline CORT; Body temperature; Context-dependent CORT response; CORT-fitness hypothesis; Individual quality; Somateria mollissima

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/74665

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ANU Research Publications

Source

General and Comparative Endocrinology: an international journal

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.06.022

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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