Fecal corticosteroid levels in free-living populations of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) and southern red-backed voles (Clethrionomys gapperi)

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 400-409

  Harper, James M ^a,b   Austad, Steven N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FECES; HORMONE; RODENT; STEROID;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CERVIDAE; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; CRICETINAE; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 7744232393     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2004)152[0400:FCLIFP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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