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Validation of an Alternative Feather Sampling Method to Measure Corticosterone

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Research projects on birds’ welfare or their stress physiology are often complemented by measurements of corticosterone level in feathers. Until now, the common standard for this method is to collect the feathers by plucking, a procedure which on living birds is presumed to be painfu...

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Autores principales: Voit, Marielu, Merle, Roswitha, Baumgartner, Katrin, von Fersen, Lorenzo, Reese, Lukas, Ladwig-Wiegard, Mechthild, Will, Hermann, Tallo-Parra, Oriol, Carbajal, Annaïs, Lopez-Bejar, Manel, Thöne-Reineke, Christa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7694643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33171996
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10112054