Related Experiment Video
Updated: Mar 8, 2026

10:07
Thermal Imaging to Study Stress Non-invasively in Unrestrained Birds
Published on: November 6, 2015
14.1K
Stress Hormones Bring Birds, Pathogens and Mosquitoes Together
André A Dhondt1, Andrew P Dobson2
1Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University,159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
Trends in Parasitology
|February 4, 2017
Abstract:
Do stress hormones, such as corticosterone, enhance bird susceptibility to mosquitoes in ways that enhance rates of co-infection? Does this then enhance pathogen emergence?

