Do smart birds stress less? An interspecific relationship between brain size and corticosterone levels

Vertebrates respond to unpredictable noxious environmental stimuli by increasing secretion of glucocorticoids (CORT). Although this hormonal stress response is adaptive, high levels of CORT may induce significant costs if stressful situations are frequent. Thus, alternative coping mechanisms that he...

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Hlavní autoři: Lendvai, Ádám Z., Bókony, Veronika, Angelier, Frédéric, Chastel, Olivier, Sol, Daniel
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: The Royal Society 2013
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3779331/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24026820
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1734
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