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

Alejandro A. Fernández Ajó | Zendy; Kathleen E. Hunt | Zendy; Marcela Uhart | Zendy; Victoria J. Rowntree | Zendy; Mariano Sironi | Zendy; Carina F. Marón | Zendy; J. Matías Di Martino | Zendy; C. Loren Buck | Zendy

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

Author(s) -

Alejandro A. Fernández Ajó,

Kathleen E. Hunt,

Marcela Uhart,

Victoria J. Rowntree,

Mariano Sironi,

Carina F. Marón,

J. Matías Di Martino,

C. Loren Buck

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

conservation physiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.942

H-Index - 37

ISSN - 2051-1434

DOI - 10.1093/conphys/coy045

Subject(s) - baleen , right whale , biology , whale , cetacea , zoology , physiology , fishery

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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