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ArticleConservation physiology2020

Hormone comparison between right and left baleen whale earplugs.

Danielle D Crain, Amanda Thomas, Farzaneh Mansouri, Charles W Potter, Sascha Usenko, Stephen J Trumble

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Article in Conservation physiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Danielle D CrainDepartment of Biology, Baylor University, 101 Bagby Ave. Waco TX 76706, USA.
Amanda ThomasDepartment of Biology, Baylor University, 101 Bagby Ave. Waco TX 76706, USA.
Farzaneh MansouriDepartment of Environmental Science, Baylor University, 101 Bagby Ave. Waco TX 76706, USA.
Charles W PotterDepartment of Vertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, PO Box 37012 SI Bldg, Room 153, MRC 010, Washington, DC 20013 USA.
Sascha UsenkoDepartment of Biology, Baylor University, 101 Bagby Ave. Waco TX 76706, USA.
Stephen J TrumbleDepartment of Biology, Baylor University, 101 Bagby Ave. Waco TX 76706, USA.
Baylor University · USNational Museum of Natural History · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Marine animals experience additional stressors as humans continue to industrialize the oceans and as the climate continues to rapidly change. To examine how the environment or humans impact animal stress, many researchers analyse hormones from biological matrices. Scientists have begun to examine hormones in continuously growing biological matrices, such as baleen whale earwax plugs, baleen and pinniped vibrissae. Few of these studies have determined if the hormones in these tissues across the body of the organism are interchangeable. Here, hormone values in the right and left earplugs from the same individual were compared for two reasons: (i) to determine whether right and left earplug hormone values can be used interchangeably and (ii) to assess methods of standardizing hormones in right and left earplugs to control for individuals' naturally varying hormone expressions. We analysed how absolute, baseline-corrected and Z-score normalized hormones performed in reaching these goals. Absolute hormones in the right and left earplugs displayed a positive relationship, while using

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Baleen whaleearplugearwaxhormone baselinevalidationZ-score

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