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Linking plasma sex steroid hormone levels to the condition of external genitalia in European badgers (Meles meles): A critical evaluation of traditional field methodology
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Field biologists often rely on examination of external genitalia as a proxy for mammalian reproductive condition. In seasonally breeding European badgers, scrotal testes are used as an indicator of spermatogenesis, while a pink and swollen vulva with mucosal secretion is assumed to indicate oestrus. Systematic validation of these assumptions is lacking. Here we analysed sex steroid hormones from plasma samples collected from sexually mature adults during the winter mating season, the spring p...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.mambio.2018.09.007
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People’s Trust for Endangered Species
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Mammalian Biology Journal website
- Volume:
- 93
- Pages:
- 97-108
- Publication date:
- 2018-09-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-09-20
- DOI:
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1618-1476
- ISSN:
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1616-5047
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pubs:926397
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- pubs:926397
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- Deposit date:
- 2018-10-11
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- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © 2018 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Elsevier at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2018.09.007
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