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Sex, scarring, and stress: understanding seasonal costs in a cryptic marine mammal

We investigated variation in adrenal activity in the dugong, a vulnerable cryptic marine mammal species, in a population inhabiting the lower thermal limit of their range. We sampled 319 live wild dugongs and examined faecal glucocorticoid (fGC) concentrations in relationship to sex, reproductive st...

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Autores principales: Burgess, Elizabeth A., Brown, Janine L., Lanyon, Janet M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4732434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27293598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cot014