Of 11 candidate steroids, corticosterone concentration standardized for mass is the most reliable steroid biomarker of nutritional stress across different feather types

Abstract Measuring corticosterone in feathers has become an informative tool in avian ecology, enabling researchers to investigate carry‐over effects and responses to environmental variability. Few studies have, however, explored whether corticosterone is the only hormone expressed in feathers and i...

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Main Authors: Alexis Will, Katherine Wynne‐Edwards, Ruokun Zhou, Alexander Kitaysky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-10-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5701