Sangenstedt, Susanne; Szardenings, Carsten; Sachser, Norbert; Kaiser, Sylvia: Does the early social environment prepare individuals for the future? A match-mismatch experiment in female wild cavies. In: Frontiers in Zoology. Jg.15. 2018
Inhalt
- Background
- Methods
- Animals
- General housing conditions
- Housing of pregnant and lactating females
- Establishment of unstable and stable social environments
- Housing of daughters
- Measurement of behavioral profiles and dominance ranks
- Measurement of cortisol values
- Cortisol Response Test
- Measurement of body weight
- Blood sampling
- Endocrine analyses
- Data analysis and statistics
- Results
- Behavior
- Cortisol
- Body weight
- Discussion
- An adaptive shaping of neuroendocrine and behavioral profiles to the early social environment?
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Funding
- Availability of data and materials
- Author’s contributions
- Ethics approval and consent to participate
- Competing interests
- Publisher’s Note
- Author details
- References