Start early! Does social instability during the pre- and early postnatal development prepare male wild cavies for social challenge later in life?

Early social instability affects plasma testosterone during adolescence but does not alter reproductive capacity or measures of stress later in life

(2013) Katja Siegeler et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Effects of repeated regrouping on horse behaviour and injuries

(2011) Janne Winther Christensen et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

The social environment during pregnancy and lactation shapes the behavioral and hormonal profile of male offspring in wild cavies

(2011) Katja Siegeler et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Adaptive modulation of behavioural profiles by social stress during early phases of life and adolescence

(2010) Norbert Sachser et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Social Instability in Laying Quail: Consequences on Yolk Steroids and Offspring's Phenotype

(2010) Floriane Guibert et al.   PLoS One

Characterization of new microsatellite loci for the South-American rodents Cavia aperea and C. magna

(2009) Ricardo Kanitz et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

Social instability increases aggression in groups of dairy goats, but with minor consequences for the goats’ growth, kid production and development

(2008) Inger Lise Andersen et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Large males dominate: ecology, social organization, and mating system of wild cavies, the ancestors of the guinea pig

(2008) Matthias Asher et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Prenatal stress does not impair coping with challenge later in life

(2007) Kristina Kemme et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR