Brittany Bard

Mechanisms underlying the cortisol response to acute warming in a freshwater teleost fish.

Although acute warming is well known to increase circulating concentrations of the glucocorticoid stress hormone cortisol in fishes, the mechanisms through which fish perceive high temperatures as a stressor and activate the hypothalamic-pituitary-interrenal (HPI) axis remain poorly understood. Here, we probed these me...