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Like mother, like daughter: heritability of female Richardson’s ground squirrel Urocitellus richardsonii cortisol stress responses

Activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis liberates glucocorticoids, which provides an acute indication of an individual’s response to stressors. The heritability of the stress response in wild mammals, however, remains poorly documented. We quantified the cortisol stress response...

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Autores principales: Bairos-Novak, Kevin R, Ryan, Calen P, Freeman, Angela R, Anderson, W Gary, Hare, James F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30402055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zox014