Does prolactin mediate parental and life-history decisions in response to environmental conditions in birds? A review

Authors: Frédéric Angelier, John C. Wingfield, Sabrina Tartu, Olivier Chastel

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: breeding success, clutch size, endocrine disruption, molt, parental behavior, prolactin, re-nesting, stress

2016

The stress response is attenuated during inclement weather in parental, but not in pre-parental, Lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus) breeding in the Low Arctic

Authors: Jesse S. Krause, Jonathan H. Pérez, Helen E. Chmura, Simone L. Meddle, Kathleen E. Hunt, Laura Gough, Natalie Boelman, John C. Wingfield

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: corticosterone, hpa axis, life history trade-offs, parental care, snowstorms, stress

2016

The comparative biology of environmental stress: behavioural endocrinology and variation in ability to cope with novel, changing environments

Authors: John C. Wingfield

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: allostasis, corticosteroid, glucocorticoid receptor, perturbation, reactive scope, steroid metabolizing enzyme, stress

2013

What is in a name? Integrating homeostasis, allostasis and stress

Authors: Bruce S. McEwen, John C. Wingfield

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: allostasis, homeostasis, stress

2010

Do baseline glucocorticoids predict fitness?

Authors: Frances Bonier, Paul R. Martin, Ignacio T. Moore, John C. Wingfield

Publication/Journal: Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Keywords: cort-fitness hypothesis, fitness, glucocorticoid

2009

Actions of glucocorticoids at a seasonal baseline as compared to stress-related levels in the regulation of periodic life processes

Authors: M. Landys, M. Ramenofsky, J. Wingfield

Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology

Keywords: activity, allostasis, corticosterone, energy metabolism, food intake, glucocorticosteroids, life history, predictable demands, seasonal baseline, stress, unpredictable perturbations

2006

Habituation of Adult Magellanic Penguins to Human Visitation as Expressed through Behavior and Corticosterone Secretion

Authors: Brian G. Walker, P. Dee Boersma, John C. Wingfield

Publication/Journal: Conservation Biology

Keywords: human disturbance, spheniscus magellanicus, stress

2006

The Darwinian concept of stress: benefits of allostasis and costs of allostatic load and the trade-offs in health and disease

Authors: S. Mechiel Korte, Jaap M. Koolhaas, John C. Wingfield, Bruce S. McEwen

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: allostasis, allostatic load, allostatic state, amygdala, atypical depression, birds, brain, chronic fatigue, coping, darwin, doves, evolution, evolutionary stable strategy, fight–flight, freeze–hide, hawks, hippocampus, human, locus coeruleus, melancholic depression, natural selection, prefrontal cortex, psychosis, rat, stress

2005

Physiological and Behavioral Differences in Magellanic Penguin Chicks in Undisturbed and Tourist-Visited Locations of a Colony

Authors: Brian G. Walker, P. Dee Boersma, John C. Wingfield

Publication/Journal: Conservation Biology

Keywords: corticosterone, ecotourism, human disturbance, spheniscus magellanicus

2005

Plasma corticosterone increases during migratory restlessness in the captive white-crowned sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelli

Authors: Mėta M. Landys, John C. Wingfield, Marilyn Ramenofsky

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: adaptation, animal migration/physiology, animal migration/radiation effects, animals, corticosterone, gambel’s white-crowned sparrow, light, locomotor-activity, metabolites, migration, photoperiod, physiological, seasons, zonotrichia leucophrys

2004

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