Diurnal and annual changes in serum cortisol concentrations in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins Tursiops aduncus and killer whales Orcinus orca

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 427-433

  Suzuki, Miwa ^a   Uchida, Senzo ^b   Ueda, Keiichi ^b   Tobayama, Teruo ^c   Katsumata, Etsuko ^c   Yoshioka, Motoi ^d   Aida, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Expo Aquarium ^*  (Japan)

^c International Marine Biological Research Institute   (Japan)

^d MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annual changes; Cortisol; Diurnal changes; Indo Pacific bottlenose dolphin; Killer whale

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOLPHIN; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SUMMER; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WHALE;

TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

EID: 0037704625     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(03)00100-X     Document Type: Article

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