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

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

(2013) Daniel Sol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Ecological processes and the ecology of stress: the impacts of abiotic environmental factors

(2013) John C. Wingfield   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Mediating free glucocorticoid levels in the blood of vertebrates: are corticosteroid-binding proteins always necessary?

(2013) Lanna M. Desantis et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Reality as the leading cause of stress: rethinking the impact of chronic stress in nature

(2012) Rudy Boonstra   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Brains and the city: big-brained passerine birds succeed in urban environments

(2011) A. A. Maklakov et al.   Biology Letters

What drives variation in the corticosterone stress response between subspecies? A common garden experiment of swamp sparrows (Melospiza georgiana)

(2011) F. ANGELIER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Strategic female reproductive investment in response to male attractiveness in birds

(2011) T. Horvathova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Taxonomic counts of cognition in the wild

(2010) L. Lefebvre   Biology Letters

Tool-Making New Caledonian Crows Have Large Associative Brain Areas

(2010) Julia Mehlhorn et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

General quantitative genetic methods for comparative biology: phylogenies, taxonomies and multi-trait models for continuous and categorical characters

(2010) J. D. HADFIELD et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Promiscuity and the evolutionary transition to complex societies

(2010) Charlie K. Cornwallis et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary Divergence in Brain Size between Migratory and Resident Birds

(2010) Daniel Sol et al.   PLoS One

Corticosterone, testosterone and life-history strategies of birds

(2010) M. Hau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stress Response and the Value of Reproduction: Are Birds Prudent Parents?

(2009) Veronika Bókony et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds

(2009) Sarah E. Overington et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Individual variation in baseline and stress-induced corticosterone and prolactin levels predicts parental effort by nesting mourning doves

(2009) David A. Miller et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

An ecologist’s guide to the animal model

(2009) Alastair J. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Steroid-binding proteins and free steroids in birds

(2009) Jessica L. Malisch et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Glucocorticoid stress hormones and the effect of predation risk on elk reproduction

(2009) S. Creel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Do baseline glucocorticoids predict fitness?

(2009) Frances Bonier et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Revisiting the cognitive buffer hypothesis for the evolution of large brains

(2008) D. Sol   Biology Letters

Brains, Lifestyles and Cognition: Are There General Trends?

(2008) Louis Lefebvre et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

In search of relationships between the acute adrenocortical response and fitness

(2008) Creagh W. Breuner et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Individual variation in endocrine systems: moving beyond the 'tyranny of the Golden Mean'

(2007) T. D Williams   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES