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Experimental brood enlargement differentially influences the magnitude of the corticosterone stress response in closely related, co-occurring songbirds

Creator:

Hardt, Braelei M., Ardia, Daniel R., Bashaw, Meredith J., and Rivers, James W.

Abstract:

1. Rearing environments can shape offspring phenotype across taxa, yet little is known about how brood size influences hypothalamic-pituitary axis functioning, whether its expression trades off with growth, and the degree to which these -relationships vary between species. 2. We evaluated how brood size influenced nestling physiological (glucocorticoids) and somatic...

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