Thesis
Honest fitness advertisement in European badgers (Meles meles)
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By using European badgers (Meles meles) as a model species, my thesis examines how wild mammalian populations utilise olfactory communication via specialised glandular secretions and metabolic by-products when advertising fitness-related information to conspecifics. This research utilised bomb calorimetry to quantify energetic content within subcaudal gland secretion (a uniquely evolved scent gland), enzyme immunoassays to measure sex-steroid levels within urine, and scent-provisioning exp...
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+ Johnson, P
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Sub department:
Zoology
Research group:
Wildlife Conservation Research Unit
Oxford college:
Lady Margaret Hall
Role:
Contributor
+ Newman, C
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Sub department:
Zoology
Research group:
Wildlife Conservation Research Unit
Oxford college:
Lady Margaret Hall
Role:
Contributor
+ Macdonald, D
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Sub department:
Zoology
Research group:
Wildlife Conservation Research Unit
Oxford college:
Lady Margaret Hall
Role:
Supervisor
+ Wyatt, T
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Sub department:
Zoology
Oxford college:
Kellogg College
Role:
Supervisor
+ Buesching, C
Role:
Supervisor
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2021-01-24
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- Copyright holder:
- Allen, TM
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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