Browsing Research Articles (Anatomy and Physiology) by UP Author "Gaynor, David"

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The development of individual differences in cooperative behaviour : maternal glucocorticoid hormones alter helping behaviour of offspring in wild meerkats

Dantzer, Ben; Dubuc, Constance; Goncalves, Ines Braga; Cram, Dominic L.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Ganswindt, Andre; Heistermann, Michael; Duncan, Chris; Gaynor, David; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Royal Society, 2019-02)

The phenotype of parents can have long-lasting effects on the development of offspring as well as on their behaviour, physiology and morphology as adults. In some cases, these changes may increase offspring fitness but, ...
The influence of stress hormones and aggression on cooperative behaviour in subordinate meerkats

Dantzer, Ben; Goncalves, Ines Braga; Spence-Jones, Helen C.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Heistermann, Michael; Ganswindt, Andre; Dubuc, Constance; Gaynor, David; Manser, Marta B.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (The Royal Society, 2017-09)

In cooperative breeders, aggression from dominant breeders directed at subordinates may raise subordinate stress hormone (glucocorticoid) concentrations. This may benefit dominants by suppressing subordinate reproduction ...

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