Sex differences in the impact of social status on hair cortisol concentrations in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).

ABSTRACT: Social status impacts stress in primates, but the direction of the effect differs depending on species, social style, and group stability. This complicates our ability to identify broadly applicable principles for understanding how social status impacts health and fitness. One reason for this is the fact that social status is often measured as linear dominance rank, yet social status is more complex than simply high or low rank. Additionally, most research on social status and health ignores the effects of sex and sex-specific relationships, despite known differences in disease risk, coping strategies, and opposite-sex dominance interactions between males and females in many species. We examine the influence of social status, sex, and opposite-sex interactions on hair cortisol concentratio

SUBMITTER: Vandeleest JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6980377 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature