Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2800703 | General and Comparative Endocrinology | 2012 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Increasing maternal corticosterone (cort) as a tool to increase cort in avian egg. ⺠Implants increased plasma cort of mothers and translated into increased yolk cort. ⺠HPLC analyses of the yolk extracts revealed the presence of cort in egg-yolk. ⺠To increase maternal cort is an efficient tool to manipulate conditions for embryos.
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Authors
Bettina Almasi, Sophie Rettenbacher, Claudia Müller, Sandra Brill, Hermann Wagner, Lukas Jenni,