ReviewFrontiers in veterinary science2024
Fecal thyroid hormone metabolites in wild ungulates: a mini-review.
Review in Frontiers in veterinary science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Analysis of different biological matrices for glucocorticoid detection in wild Cervidae and Bovidae from Europe and North America: a review.BMC veterinary research · 2025Pooled it
- Metabolic, Hormonal and Body Condition Changes in Melatonin-Implanted Dairy Rams and Flock Pregnancy Rate During the Mating Season: A Longitudinal Field Study.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Can Fecal T3 Metabolite Level Fluctuations in European Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) Give Insights on Body Condition and Thermal Stress?Integrative zoology · 2026Article
- Stress, Well-Being, and Reproduction in Wildlife.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Non-invasive biomarkers of reproduction in individuals and populations of wild vertebrates.The Journal of reproduction and development · 2026Review
- Physiological responses in free-ranging Asian elephant populations living across human-production landscapes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Physiological and nutritional stress response of African elephants within the lantana-dominated Lower Imenti Forest Reserve in Kenya.Conservation physiology · 2025Article
- Validation of a triiodothyronine (T3) ELISA for mouse fecal samples.Physiological reports · 2024Article
- Adrenal and metabolic hormones demonstrate risk-reward trade-offs for African elephants foraging in human-dominated landscapes.Conservation physiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
This review aims to analyse the fluctuations of fecal thyroid hormone metabolites (FTMs) related to environmental and individual variables in different species of wild ungulates and provide a collection of assay methods. The great advantage of fecal sampling is being completely non-invasive. A systemic search was conducted from 2019 to 2024, using data sources PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and the World Wide Web, and ten studies were found on this topic. Three studies used the radioimmunoassay method for FTMs analysis, while the others used a less expensive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Most of these papers validated the method for the species-specific matrix. Related to the studied variables, some authors analysed FTM fluctuations only concerning individual variables, and others in response to both. Temperature and fecal cortisol metabolites (FCMs) were the most studied environmental and individual variables, respectively. Since FTMs are an integrative measure of plasma thyroid hormones, the information obtained from a non-invasive-assay method regarding wild ungulate physiology is becoming of great interest to the scientific community.
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