Non-invasive monitoring of glucocorticoid physiology within highland and lowland populations of native Australian Great Barred Frog (Mixophyes fasciolatus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 191, Issue , 2013, Pages 24-30

  Graham, Clara M ^a   Narayan, Edward J ^a   McCallum, Hamish ^a   Hero, Jean Marc ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Altitude; Chytridiomycosis; Climate; Conservation physiology; Corticosterone; Mixophyes fasciolatus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANURA; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALE; MIXOPHYES FASCIOLATUS; MORPHOMETRICS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; URINALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ZOOSPORE;

EID: 84879180540     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.05.012     Document Type: Article

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