| Summary: | Figure 4. Glucocorticoid hormone profile in baleen from entangled bowhead whale 17B6. Baleen GC concentrations (ng/g) are shown as red circles for cortisol and orange circles for corticosterone. Sample dates were estimated based on an annual baleen growth rate of 17.5 cm/yr, starting with the harvest date (5 May 2017) on the right side of the bottom x-axis and extending retrospectively to approximately November 2005 on the left side of the x-axis (tick marks are months). Sampling locations along the baleen plate are shown on the top x-axis, and background gridlines represent the 1.25 or 2.5 cm sampling intervals used, starting at the plate base. Published as part of Rolland, Rosalind M., Graham, Katherine M., Stimmelmayr, Raphaela, Suydam, Robert S. & George, John C., 2019, Chronic stress from fishing gear entanglement is recorded in baleen from a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus), pp. 1625-1642 in Marine Mammal Science 35 (4) on page 1634, DOI:10.1111/mms.12596, http://zenodo.org/record/12761891
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