Aquaculture has great potential to feed and nourish the world's growing population.
However, the aquaculture products often increase at the expense of the environment …

Stress responses play a key role in allowing animals to cope with change and challenge in
the face of both environmental certainty and uncertainty. Measurement of glucocorticoid …

Conservation physiology proposes that measures of physiological stress (glucocorticoid
levels) can be used to assess the status and future fate of natural populations. Increases in …

This review examines the contribution of research on fishes to the growing field of
behavioural syndromes. Current knowledge of behavioural syndromes in fishes is reviewed …

Behaviour represents a reaction to the environment as fish perceive it and is therefore a key
element of fish welfare. This review summarises the main findings on how behavioural …

Previous reviews of stress, and the stress hormone cortisol, in fish have focussed on
physiology, due to interest in impacts on aquaculture production. Here, we discuss cortisol in …

Methods to measure metabolites of steroid hormones from faeces have become very
popular in wildlife conservation and ecology, because they allow gathering physiological …

Cook, NJ 2012. Review: Minimally invasive sampling media and the measurement of
corticosteroids as biomarkers of stress in animals. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 92: 227–259. The …

Animal conflicts are influenced by social experience such that a previous winning
experience increases the probability of winning the next agonistic interaction, whereas a …

The major progestin in teleosts is not progesterone, as in tetrapods, but 17, 20β‐
dihydroxypregn‐4‐en‐3‐one (17, 20β‐P) or, in certain species, 17, 20β, 21‐trihydroxy …