When do older birds better resist stress? A study of the corticosterone stress response in snow petrels
International audience Life-history theory predicts that, to optimize their fitness, individuals should increase their reproductive effort as their residual reproductive value decreases. Accordingly, several studies have shown that individuals downregulate their glucocorticoid stress response (a pro...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-02440963v1 2023-05-15T18:20:09+02:00 When do older birds better resist stress? A study of the corticosterone stress response in snow petrels Angelier, Frédéric Chastel, Olivier Lendvai, Adám Parenteau, Charline Weimerskirch, Henri Wingfield, John Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology Hungary University of Debrecen Hungary Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior University of California 2020-01-15 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02440963 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0733 en eng HAL CCSD Royal Society, The info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0733 hal-02440963 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02440963 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0733 ISSN: 1744-9561 Biology Letters https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02440963 Biology Letters, Royal Society, The, 2020, 16 (1), pp.20190733. ⟨10.1098/rsbl.2019.0733⟩ corticosterone seabirds stress age parental effort [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2020 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0733 2021-11-07T01:24:21Z International audience Life-history theory predicts that, to optimize their fitness, individuals should increase their reproductive effort as their residual reproductive value decreases. Accordingly, several studies have shown that individuals downregulate their glucocorticoid stress response (a proxy of reproductive investment in vertebrates) as they age, and as the subsequent reproductive value decreases. However, and surprisingly, results appear inconsistent, suggesting that the environmental context or the individual state may affect the relationship between age and reproductive effort. Here, we tested for the first time this hypothesis, and more specifically, whether this attenuation of the corticosterone stress response with advancing age depends on the energetic status of individuals. We compared the influence of age on the corticosterone stress response between fasting and non-fasting breeding snow petrels (Pagodroma nivea), an extremely long-lived bird. As expected, we found that the corticosterone stress response was attenuated in old petrels, but only when they were not fasting. Interestingly, this pattern was not apparent in fasting petrels, suggesting that old birds downregulate their corticosterone stress response and increase their parental investment only when they are in good body condition. At the ultimate level, old individuals may maintain a strong corticosterone stress response when fasting because the survival costs of increased stress resistance and parental effort might then outweigh their reproductive benefits. Article in Journal/Newspaper Snow Petrels Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Nivea ENVELOPE(-45.479,-45.479,-60.580,-60.580) Biology Letters 16 1 20190733 |
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International audience Life-history theory predicts that, to optimize their fitness, individuals should increase their reproductive effort as their residual reproductive value decreases. Accordingly, several studies have shown that individuals downregulate their glucocorticoid stress response (a proxy of reproductive investment in vertebrates) as they age, and as the subsequent reproductive value decreases. However, and surprisingly, results appear inconsistent, suggesting that the environmental context or the individual state may affect the relationship between age and reproductive effort. Here, we tested for the first time this hypothesis, and more specifically, whether this attenuation of the corticosterone stress response with advancing age depends on the energetic status of individuals. We compared the influence of age on the corticosterone stress response between fasting and non-fasting breeding snow petrels (Pagodroma nivea), an extremely long-lived bird. As expected, we found that the corticosterone stress response was attenuated in old petrels, but only when they were not fasting. Interestingly, this pattern was not apparent in fasting petrels, suggesting that old birds downregulate their corticosterone stress response and increase their parental investment only when they are in good body condition. At the ultimate level, old individuals may maintain a strong corticosterone stress response when fasting because the survival costs of increased stress resistance and parental effort might then outweigh their reproductive benefits. |
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Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology Hungary University of Debrecen Hungary Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior University of California |
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Angelier, Frédéric Chastel, Olivier Lendvai, Adám Parenteau, Charline Weimerskirch, Henri Wingfield, John |
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Angelier, Frédéric Chastel, Olivier Lendvai, Adám Parenteau, Charline Weimerskirch, Henri Wingfield, John |
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When do older birds better resist stress? A study of the corticosterone stress response in snow petrels |
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When do older birds better resist stress? A study of the corticosterone stress response in snow petrels |
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When do older birds better resist stress? A study of the corticosterone stress response in snow petrels |
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when do older birds better resist stress? a study of the corticosterone stress response in snow petrels |
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ISSN: 1744-9561 Biology Letters https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02440963 Biology Letters, Royal Society, The, 2020, 16 (1), pp.20190733. ⟨10.1098/rsbl.2019.0733⟩ |
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