Following the discoveries of telomeres and of their implications in terms of health and
ageing, there has been a growing interest into the study of telomere dynamics in wild …

Responding appropriately to changing conditions is crucial in dynamic environments.
Individual variation in the flexibility of physiological mediators of phenotype may influence …

The concept of stress is notoriously difficult to define, despite its ubiquity in both common
parlance and the scientific literature. Given the clear importance of understanding how …

The amygdala plays a major role in the processing of physiologic and behavioral responses
to stress and is characterized by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated high inhibitory …

As global climate change progresses, the occurrence of potentially disruptive climatic events
such as storms are increasing in frequency, duration and intensity resulting in higher …

Anthropogenic noise is an emergent ecological pollutant in both terrestrial and aquatic
habitats. Human population growth, urbanisation, resource extraction, transport and …

Repeatability of behavioural and physiological traits is increasingly a focus for animal
researchers, for which fish have become important models. Almost all of this work has been …

Glucocorticoid hormones (GC) regulate essential physiological functions including energy
homeostasis, embryonic and postembryonic development, and the stress response. From …

Stress is ubiquitous and thus, not surprisingly, many hypotheses and models have been
created to better study the role stress plays in life. Stress spans fields and is found in the …

Glucocorticoid (GC) hormones are important phenotypic mediators across vertebrates, but
their circulating concentrations can vary markedly. Here we investigate macroevolutionary …