Lifetime glucocorticoid profiles in baleen of right whale calves: potential relationships to chronic stress of repeated wounding by Kelp Gulls

Baleen from stranded carcasses of five right whale calves (four southern and one North Atlantic) contain cortisol and corticosterone patterns that may represent longitudinal profiles of stress exposure over time. Calves with high wounding from Kelp Gulls had markedly higher glucocorticoids in postna...

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Published in:Conservation Physiology
Main Authors: Fernández Ajó, Alejandro A, Hunt, Kathleen E, Uhart, Marcela, Rowntree, Victoria, Sironi, Mariano, Marón, Carina F, Di Martino, Matias, Buck, C Loren
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2018
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Research Article
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6101610/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30151197
https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coy045
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Summary:Baleen from stranded carcasses of five right whale calves (four southern and one North Atlantic) contain cortisol and corticosterone patterns that may represent longitudinal profiles of stress exposure over time. Calves with high wounding from Kelp Gulls had markedly higher glucocorticoids in postnatal baleen than did less wounded and unwounded calves.

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