Testing hypotheses about individual variation in plasma corticosterone in free-living salamanders
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Testing hypotheses about individual variation in plasma corticosterone in free-living salamanders.
In vertebrates, many responses to stress as well as homeostatic maintenance of basal metabolism are regulated by plasma glucocorticoid hormones (GCs). Despite having crucial functions, levels of GCs are typically variable among individuals. We examined the contribution of several physiological factors to individual variation in plasma corticosterone (CORT) and the number of corticotropin-releas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.149765