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SUBMITTER: Bowland GB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7604343 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bowland Grace B GB Bernstein Robin M RM Koster Jeremy J Fiorello Christine C Brenn-White Maris M Liu James J Schwartz Laura L Campbell Amanda A von Stade Devin D Beagley Janet J Pomerantz Julie J González Alejandro A Quick Mackenzie M McKinnon Kailyn K Aghaian Andrea A Sparks Corey C Gross Joshua B JB
Frontiers in veterinary science 20201019
This study examined the relationships between hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) and sex, age, nutritional status (as determined by body condition scores, or BCS), and body mass (geometric mean calculated from morphometric measurements), as well as the potential influence of hair pigmentation (light, dark, or agouti/mixed) on HCC in dogs of the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve, Nicaragua. The dogs examined in this study live in a marginal environment where disease, malnutrition, and mortality rates are ...[more]