Endocrine mechanisms, behavioral phenotypes and plasticity: known relationships and open questions

Parental care, loss of paternity and circulating levels of testosterone and corticosterone in a socially monogamous song bird

(2014) Camila P Villavicencio et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Stress and success: Individual differences in the glucocorticoid stress response predict behavior and reproductive success under high predation risk

(2014) Maren N. Vitousek et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Sex differences in the long-term repeatability of the acute stress response in long-lived, free-living Florida scrub-jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens)

(2014) Thomas W. Small et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Experimental Food Restriction Reveals Individual Differences in Corticosterone Reaction Norms with No Oxidative Costs

(2014) Ádám Z. Lendvai et al.   PLoS One

An experimental analysis of the heritability of variation in glucocorticoid concentrations in a wild avian population

(2014) B. R. Jenkins et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Experimentally elevated levels of testosterone at independence reduce fitness in a territorial bird

(2013) J. Martínez-Padilla et al.   ECOLOGY

Dispersal and gene flow in free-living marine nematodes

(2013) Sofie Derycke et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Experimental induction of social instability during early breeding does not alter testosterone levels in male black redstarts, a socially monogamous songbird

(2013) Camila P. Villavicencio et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Small increases in corticosterone before the breeding season increase parental investment but not fitness in a wild passerine bird

(2013) Jenny Q. Ouyang et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Endocrine phenotype, reproductive success and survival in the great tit,Parus major

(2013) J. Q. Ouyang et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Natural selection and glucocorticoid physiology

(2013) S. H. Patterson et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Parental provisioning behaviour plays a key role in linking personality with reproductive success

(2013) A. Mutzel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inverse urinary corticosterone and testosterone metabolite responses to different durations of restraint in the cane toad (Rhinella marina)

(2012) Edward J. Narayan et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation

(2012) R. B. Huey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Testosterone Affects Song Modulation during Simulated Territorial Intrusions in Male Black Redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros)

(2012) Beate Apfelbeck et al.   PLoS One

Experimental evidence for adaptive personalities in a wild passerine bird

(2012) M. Nicolaus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Individual Variation in Parental Care Reaction Norms: Integration of Personality and Plasticity

(2011) David F. Westneat et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Corticosterone responses differ between lines of great tits (Parus major) selected for divergent personalities

(2011) Alexander T. Baugh et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Non-migratory stonechats show seasonal changes in the hormonal regulation of non-seasonal territorial aggression

(2011) Valeria Marasco et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Within seasons and among years: When are corticosterone levels repeatable?

(2011) Jenny Q. Ouyang et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Ignoring the challenge? Male black redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros) do not increase testosterone levels during territorial conflicts but they do so in response to gonadotropin-releasing hormone

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

Hormone levels predict individual differences in reproductive success in a passerine bird

(2011) J. Q. Ouyang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neuroendocrinology of coping styles: Towards understanding the biology of individual variation

(2010) J.M. Koolhaas et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Selection for fast and slow exploration affects baseline and stress-induced corticosterone excretion in Great tit nestlings, Parus major

(2010) Mareike Stöwe et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Physiological and genetic correlates of boldness: Characterising the mechanisms of behavioural variation in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

(2010) Jack S. Thomson et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Regulation of stress response is heritable and functionally linked to melanin-based coloration

(2010) B. ALMASI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Translating environmental gradients into discontinuous reaction norms via hormone signalling in a polyphenic butterfly

(2010) V. Oostra et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Why is there variation in baseline glucocorticoid levels?

(2010) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis

(2009) Alison M. Bell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The development of animal personality: relevance, concepts and perspectives

(2009) Judy Stamps et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Stress, song and survival in sparrows

(2009) S. A. MacDougall-Shackleton et al.   Biology Letters

The role of androgen receptors in regulating territorial aggression in male song sparrows

(2009) Todd S. Sperry et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Microevolution of neuroendocrine mechanisms regulating reproductive timing in Peromyscus leucopus

(2009) P. D. Heideman et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Does stress response predict return rate in a migratory bird species? A study of American redstarts and their non-breeding habitat

(2009) F. Angelier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Do baseline glucocorticoids predict fitness?

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

Sexual signal exaggeration affects physiological state in male barn swallows

(2008) Rebecca J. Safran et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Comparative endocrinology, environment and global change

(2008) John C. Wingfield   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Social modulation of androgens in male birds

(2008) Wolfgang Goymann   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Testosterone control of male courtship in birds

(2008) Leonida Fusani   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Exploring plasticity in the wild: laying date-temperature reaction norms in the common gull Larus canus

(2008) J. E Brommer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The decoy matters! Hormonal and behavioural differences in the reaction of territorial European robins towards stuffed and live decoys

(2007) Madeleine Scriba et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Adrenocortical responses in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata): Individual variation, repeatability, and relationship to phenotypic quality

(2007) Haruka Wada et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Do hormonal control systems produce evolutionary inertia?

(2007) E. Adkins-Regan   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Individual variation and the endocrine regulation of behaviour and physiology in birds: a cellular/molecular perspective

(2007) G. F Ball et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sources of individual variation in plasma testosterone levels

(2007) B. Kempenaers et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hormone-mediated suites as adaptations and evolutionary constraints

(2007) J. W McGlothlin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neuroendocrine control of life histories: what do we need to know to understand the evolution of phenotypic plasticity?

(2007) C. M Lessells   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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