Oxidative stress is a potential cost of breeding in male and female northern elephant seals

• Published in: Functional Ecology
• Main Authors: Sharick, Jeffrey T., Vazquez‐Medina, Jose P., Ortiz, Rudy M., Crocker, Daniel E.
• Other Authors: Costa, Daniel, NHLBI, COAST Student Research Grant
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Nes; Nes’; Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12330; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2F1365-2435.12330; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2435.12330; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/1365-2435.12330; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2435.12330

Summary The trade‐off between current reproductive effort and survival is a key concept of life‐history theory. A variety of studies support the existence of this trade‐off, but the underlying physiological mechanisms are not well understood. Oxidative stress has been proposed as a potential mechani...