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Age, sex and storage time influence hair cortisol levels in a wild mammal population

The measurement of hair cortisol is increasingly used to understand the effect of natural and anthropogenic stressors on wild animals, but it is potentially confounded by individual, seasonal and sex-dependant variations in baseline cortisol secretion. This study validated an enzyme-linked immunoass...

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Autores principales: Azevedo, Alexandre, Bailey, Liam, Bandeira, Victor, Dehnhard, Martin, Fonseca, Carlos, de Sousa, Liliana, Jewgenow, Katarina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31398221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221124