Journal article
The glucocorticoid stress response is attenuated but unrelated to reproductive investment during parental care in a teleost fish
Abstract
We investigated whether circulating glucocorticoids and androgens are correlated with reproductive investment in smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu), a teleost fish with sole paternal care. Circulating cortisol and androgens prior to and 25 min following a standardized 3 min emersion stressor were quantified for non-reproductive and parental fish across the parental care period. To experimentally investigate the influence of reproductive …
Authors
O’Connor CM; Yick CY; Gilmour KM; Van Der Kraak G; Cooke SJ
Journal
General and Comparative Endocrinology, Vol. 170, No. 2, pp. 215–221
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
January 2011
DOI
10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.11.004
ISSN
0016-6480