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Methodological considerations for measuring glucocorticoid metabolites in feathers
In recent years, researchers have begun to use corticosteroid metabolites in feathers (fCORT) as a metric of stress physiology in birds. However, there remain substantial questions about how to measure fCORT most accurately. Notably, small samples contain artificially high amounts of fCORT per milli...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4913509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27335650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cow020 |