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Gender and Personality Differences in Response to Social Stressors in Great Tits (Parus major)

In response to stressors, animals can increase the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, resulting in elevated glucocorticoid concentrations. An increase in glucocorticoids results in an increase in heterophils and a decrease in lymphocytes, which ratio (H/L-ratio) is an indica...

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Autores principales: van der Meer, Esther, van Oers, Kees
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4444083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26011633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127984