Volume 68
Recent Advances Regarding the Role of Corticosteroids in the Elasmobranch Stress Response
Authors
Jones, E.R.,B.S. Nunez, and A.N. Evans Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2015
Pages: 145 - 146
Event: Proceedings of the Sixty eigth Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Panama City
Country: Panama
Abstract
In most vertebrates, corticosteroids facilitate survival of stressors by mobilizing energy reserves and directing energy away from other systems including reproduction and immunity. Therefore long-term activation of the endocrine stress axis is deleterious, and may affect survival and/or reproductive fitness. Due to the adverse effects of chronic stress, understand-ing the physiology of the stress response is vital to informing population management and conservation decisions.