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Quantifying Glucocorticoid Plasticity Using Reaction Norm Approaches: There Still is So Much to Discover!
Integrative and comparative biology - 13 Aug 2022
Malkoc Kasja, Mentesana Lucia, Casagrande Stefania, Hau Michaela
Abstract excerpt
Hormones are highly responsive internal signals that help organisms adjust their phenotype to fluctuations in environmental and internal conditions. Our knowledge of the causes and consequences of variation in circulating hormone concentrations has improved greatly in the past. However, this knowledge often comes from population-level studies, which generally tend to make the flawed assumption that all...
Topics
- Animals
- Endocrine System
- Glucocorticoids
- Phenotype
- Physical Conditioning, Animal