The reactive scope model—a new model integrating homeostasis, allostasis, and stress

LM Romero, MJ Dickens, NE Cyr - Hormones and behavior, 2009 - Elsevier
Allostasis, the concept of maintaining stability through change, has been proposed as a term
and a model to replace the ambiguous term of stress, the concept of adequately or …

Do baseline glucocorticoids predict fitness?

F Bonier, PR Martin, IT Moore, JC Wingfield - Trends in ecology & Evolution, 2009 - cell.com
Baseline glucocorticoid (cort) levels are increasingly employed as physiological indices of
the relative condition or health of individuals and populations. Often, high cort levels are …

Beyond risk and protective factors: An adaptation-based approach to resilience

BJ Ellis, JM Bianchi, V Griskevicius… - Perspectives on …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
How does repeated or chronic childhood adversity shape social and cognitive abilities?
According to the prevailing deficit model, children from high-stress backgrounds are at risk …

Embryonic exposure to corticosterone modifies the juvenile stress response, oxidative stress and telomere length

MF Haussmann, AS Longenecker… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Early embryonic exposure to maternal glucocorticoids can broadly impact physiology and
behaviour across phylogenetically diverse taxa. The transfer of maternal glucocorticoids to …

Cortisol in mother's milk across lactation reflects maternal life history and predicts infant temperament

K Hinde, AL Skibiel, AB Foster, L Del Rosso… - Behavioral …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The maternal environment exerts important influences on offspring mass/growth,
metabolism, reproduction, neurobiology, immune function, and behavior among birds …

Hormone-mediated maternal effects in birds: mechanisms matter but what do we know of them?

TGG Groothuis, H Schwabl - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the past decade, birds have proven to be excellent models to study hormone-mediated
maternal effects in an evolutionary framework. Almost all these studies focus on the function …

Stressed mothers lay eggs with high corticosterone levels which produce low‐quality offspring

N Saino, M Romano, RP Ferrari… - … Zoology Part A …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms frequently encounter stressful ecological conditions. In vertebrates, a major
mechanism of physiological response to stress is mediated by the hypothalamic–pituitary …

Stress hormones: a link between maternal condition and sex-biased reproductive investment

OP Love, EH Chin, KE Wynne-Edwards… - The American …, 2005 - journals.uchicago.edu
In species where offspring fitness is sex-specifically influenced by maternal reproductive
condition, sex allocation theory predicts that poor-quality mothers should invest in the …

Prenatal stress in birds: pathways, effects, function and perspectives

R Henriksen, S Rettenbacher, TGG Groothuis - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Although most work on prenatal stress has been conducted on mammalian species, birds
provide useful alternative models since avian embryos develop outside the mother's body in …

Glucocorticoids modulate gastrointestinal microbiome in a wild bird

JC Noguera, M Aira… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It has recently been hypothesized that stress exposure (eg via glucocorticoid secretion) may
dysregulate the bacterial gut microbiome, a crucial 'organ'in animal health. However …