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Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird.
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- Telomere-Related Gene Networks in the Ovary Shift Across Environmental Factors.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2025Article
- Brain transcriptomics of a social challenge and maternal aggression in incubating female tree swallows.Hormones and behavior · 2025Article
- Bidirectional relationships between testosterone and aggression: a critical analysis of four predictions.Integrative and comparative biology · 2022Article
- Beyond a biased binary: A perspective on the misconceptions, challenges, and implications of studying females in avian behavioral endocrinology.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- How research on female vertebrates contributes to an expanded challenge hypothesis.Hormones and behavior · 2020Review
- Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Competitive interactions often occur in series; therefore animals may respond to social challenges in ways that prepare them for success in future conflict. Changes in the production of the steroid hormone testosterone (T) are thought to mediate phenotypic responses to competition, but research over the past few decades has yielded mixed results, leading to several potential explanations as to why T does not always elevate following a social challenge. Here, we measured T levels in tree swallows (
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