Validation and use of a HPLC-MS/MS method for the analysis of multiple steroid hormones in humpback whale blubber

• Main Author: Dalle Luche, Greta
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Griffith University 2020
• Subjects: multiple steroid hormone analysis; endocrinology; reproductive biology; Southern Hemisphere humpback whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; Antarctic; Eia; The Antarctic; Antarc*; baleen whale; Humpback Whale
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25904/1912/2762; https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/handle/10072/392397

This thesis describes the novel use of multiple steroid hormone analysis to investigate and gain understanding of previously unknown aspects of the endocrinology and reproductive biology of the Southern Hemisphere humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). Steroid hormones are a class of structurally...