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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Freeman, Nikole E, Newman, Amy E M
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/PMC6181252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30323931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coy051

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