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Lifetime glucocorticoid profiles in baleen of right whale calves: potential relationships to chronic stress of repeated wounding by Kelp Gulls

Baleen tissue accumulates stress hormones (glucocorticoids, GC) as it grows, along with other adrenal, gonadal and thyroid hormones. The hormones are deposited in a linear fashion such that a single plate of baleen allows retrospective assessment and evaluation of long-term trends in the whales’ phy...

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Autores principales: Fernández Ajó, Alejandro A, Hunt, Kathleen E, Uhart, Marcela, Rowntree, Victoria, Sironi, Mariano, Marón, Carina F, Di Martino, Matias, Buck, C Loren
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/PMC6101610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30151197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coy045