Can Body Condition and Somatic Indices be Used to Evaluate Metal-Induced Stress in Wild Small Mammals?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Tête, Nicolas ^a   Fritsch, Clémentine ^a   Afonso, Eve ^a   Coeurdassier, Michaël ^a   Lambert, Jean Claude ^a   Giraudoux, Patrick ^a,b   Scheifler, Renaud ^a  

^a University of Franche Comté   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; LEAD; ZINC;

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; KIDNEY; LANDSCAPE; LIVER LEVEL; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; SOIL POLLUTION; WILD SPECIES; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; LIVER; METABOLISM; MURINE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; FEMALE; KIDNEY; LEAD; LIVER; MALE; MURINAE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84879154145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066399     Document Type: Article

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