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Research Note: It's not just stress—fecal contamination of plumage may affect feather corticosterone concentration

The feather corticosterone concentration (fCORT) is increasingly used to assess long-term stress in birds as this indicator provides the potential to retrospectively evaluate the adrenocortical activity of a bird during the growth period of a feather over several weeks in one sample. However, there...

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Autores principales: Bartels, T., Berk, J., Cramer, K., Kanitz, E., Otten, W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8554247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34695634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2021.101494