Comparing techniques for measuring corticosterone in tadpoles

Current Zoology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 835-845

  Burraco, Pablo ^a   Arribas, Rosa ^a   Kulkarni, Saurabh S ^b   Buchholz, Daniel R ^c   Gomez Mestre, Ivan ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Corticosterone; Enzyme immunoassay; Glucocorticoids; Radioimmunoassay; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945919177     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/61.5.835     Document Type: Article

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