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

ABSTRACT: 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. Howev...

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Autores principales: T. Bartels, J. Berk, K. Cramer, E. Kanitz, W. Otten
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Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/ed9646f8077644c1ae4a741c7b46c46d
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