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 …

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 …

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 …

Early embryonic exposure to maternal glucocorticoids can broadly impact physiology and
behaviour across phylogenetically diverse taxa. The transfer of maternal glucocorticoids to …

The maternal environment exerts important influences on offspring mass/growth,
metabolism, reproduction, neurobiology, immune function, and behavior among birds …

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 …

Organisms frequently encounter stressful ecological conditions. In vertebrates, a major
mechanism of physiological response to stress is mediated by the hypothalamic–pituitary …

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 …

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 …

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 …