Elevated levels of maternal androgens in avian eggs affect numerous traits, including oxidative stress. However, current studies disagree as to whether prenatal androgen exposure enhances or ameliorates oxidative stress. Here, we tested how prenatal testosterone exposure affects oxidative stress in female domestic chickens (Gallus gallus) during the known oxidative challenge of an acute stressor. Prior to incubation, eggs were either injected with an oil vehicle or 5 ng testosterone. At either 17 or 18 days post-hatch, several oxidative stress markers were assessed from blood taken before and after a 20 min acute stressor, as well as following a 25 min recovery from the stressor. We found that, regardless of yolk treatment, during both stre...
Exposure to testosterone during embryonic development can suppress immune function in many avian spe...
Mothers can shape the developmental trajectory of their offspring through the transmission of resour...
Exposure of yolk androgens can positively stimulate chick growth and competitive ability, but may ne...
Conditions experienced during early life can influence the development of an organism and several ph...
Conditions experienced during early-life can cause the onset of oxidative stress, resulting in perva...
Conditions experienced during early-life can cause the onset of oxidative stress, resulting in perva...
Maternally derived traits, such as within-clutch variation in the amount of testosterone deposited i...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this ...
Mothers can influence prenatal conditions by varying the amount of nutrients, hormones or antioxidan...
Permanent offspring modification through maternal hormone transfer is thought to be a tool for mothe...
One hypothesis explaining the honesty of secondary sexual traits regulated by testosterone (T) is th...
In vertebrates maternal androgens can substantially influence developing offspring, inducing both sh...
Maternal effects are a mother¿s non-genetic contributions to development that alter phenotypic trai...
In vertebrates maternal androgens can substantially influence developing offspring, inducing both sh...
The oxidation handicap hypothesis (OHH) proposed that honesty in sexual signals is maintained when t...
Exposure to testosterone during embryonic development can suppress immune function in many avian spe...
Mothers can shape the developmental trajectory of their offspring through the transmission of resour...
Exposure of yolk androgens can positively stimulate chick growth and competitive ability, but may ne...
Conditions experienced during early life can influence the development of an organism and several ph...
Conditions experienced during early-life can cause the onset of oxidative stress, resulting in perva...
Conditions experienced during early-life can cause the onset of oxidative stress, resulting in perva...
Maternally derived traits, such as within-clutch variation in the amount of testosterone deposited i...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this ...
Mothers can influence prenatal conditions by varying the amount of nutrients, hormones or antioxidan...
Permanent offspring modification through maternal hormone transfer is thought to be a tool for mothe...
One hypothesis explaining the honesty of secondary sexual traits regulated by testosterone (T) is th...
In vertebrates maternal androgens can substantially influence developing offspring, inducing both sh...
Maternal effects are a mother¿s non-genetic contributions to development that alter phenotypic trai...
In vertebrates maternal androgens can substantially influence developing offspring, inducing both sh...
The oxidation handicap hypothesis (OHH) proposed that honesty in sexual signals is maintained when t...
Exposure to testosterone during embryonic development can suppress immune function in many avian spe...
Mothers can shape the developmental trajectory of their offspring through the transmission of resour...
Exposure of yolk androgens can positively stimulate chick growth and competitive ability, but may ne...