Prolonged exposure to stress during development can have long-term detrimental effects
on health and wellbeing. However, the environmental matching hypothesis proposes that …

Maternal stress can prenatally influence offspring phenotypes and there are an increasing
number of ecological studies that are bringing to bear biomedical findings to natural systems. …

Glucocorticoid hormones (GCs) are central mediators of metabolism and the response to
challenges. Because circulating GC levels increase in response to challenges, within-…

Stress exposure during early‐life development can programme individual brain and
physiology. The hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) axis is one of the primary targets of this …

Individuals often vary markedly in their ability to cope with stressors, but the drivers of this
variation remain poorly understood. Many studies have tested relationships among individual …

Mate choice theories predict that animals evolved strategies to mate with optimally genetically
dissimilar partners, providing fitness benefits. In group-living species, when adults do not …

An interesting aspect of developmental programming is the existence of transgenerational
effects that influence offspring characteristics and performance later in life. These …

Glucocorticoid hormones are important regulators of metabolic processes, and of the
behavioral and physiological responses to stressors. Within-population variation in circulating …

It has been well-established that there is variation in the strength and direction of the relationship
between circulating glucocorticoids (GCs) and fitness. When studies demonstrate such …

Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis (HPA) flexibility is an emerging concept recognizing that
individuals that will cope best with stressors will probably be those using their hormones in …