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Validation of a blubber-based endocrine pregnancy test for humpback whales

Baleen whales have few identifiable external indicators of pregnancy state, making it challenging to study essential aspects of their biology and population dynamics. Pregnancy status in other marine mammals has been determined by measuring progesterone concentrations from a variety of sample matric...

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Autores principales: Pallin, Logan, Robbins, Jooke, Kellar, Nicholas, Bérubé, Martine, Friedlaender, Ari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6009693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coy031