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Towards Non-Invasive Methods in Measuring Fish Welfare: The Measurement of Cortisol Concentrations in Fish Skin Mucus as a Biomarker of Habitat Quality

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The analysis of circulating cortisol has been by far the most common method used as a means to assess fish stress responses and, thus, animal welfare. To avoid many of the drawbacks inherent to blood sampling, cortisol can be less-invasively detected in fish skin mucus. The measureme...

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Autores principales: Carbajal, Annaïs, Soler, Patricia, Tallo-Parra, Oriol, Isasa, Marina, Echevarria, Carlos, Lopez-Bejar, Manel, Vinyoles, Dolors
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6912682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31717428
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani9110939