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Quantifying corticosterone in feathers: validations for an emerging technique
Feather corticosterone measurement is becoming a widespread tool for assessing avian physiology. Corticosterone is deposited into feathers during growth and provides integrative and retrospective measures of an individual’s hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis function. Although researchers acr...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6181252/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30323931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coy051 |