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| H Bobby FokidisSummaryAffiliation: Arizona State University Country: USA Publications
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Corticosterone and corticosteroid binding globulin in birds: relation to urbanization in a desert cityH Bobby Fokidis
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
Gen Comp Endocrinol 160:259-70. 2009..The results highlight the species-specific effects of urbanization on stress physiology and the difficulty to predict how urbanization impacts organisms...
Context-specific territorial behavior in urban birds: no evidence for involvement of testosterone or corticosteroneH Bobby Fokidis
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
Horm Behav 59:133-43. 2011..Understanding the hormonal processes underlying these associations between behavior and habitat may provide insight into how free-ranging animals assess territorial quality and alter their defensive behavior accordingly...
Plasma corticosterone of city and desert Curve-billed Thrashers, Toxostoma curvirostre, in response to stress-related peptide administrationH Bobby Fokidis
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 159:32-8. 2011..This up-regulation may in turn make it easier for city birds to cope with urban environment-associated stressors...
Effects of captivity and body condition on plasma corticosterone, locomotor behavior, and plasma metabolites in curve-billed thrashersH Bobby Fokidis
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85281, USA
Physiol Biochem Zool 84:595-606. 2011..Body condition may affect the extent to which an individual can elevate CORT and use free glycerol as energy during acute stress...
Acute stress rapidly decreases plasma testosterone in a free-ranging male songbird: potential site of action and mechanismPierre J Deviche
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 4501, USA
Gen Comp Endocrinol 169:82-90. 2010..Decreased plasma T following stress may involve a direct impairment of the testicular endocrine function...
