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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Main Authors: Alexandre Azevedo, Liam Bailey, Victor Bandeira, Martin Dehnhard, Carlos Fonseca, Liliana de Sousa, Katarina Jewgenow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221124