Abstract The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was established in 2010 with $500
million in funding provided by British Petroleum over a 10‐year period to support research …

Liquid chromatography, coupled with tandem mass spectrometry, presents a powerful tool
for the quantification of the sex steroid hormones 17‐β estradiol, progesterone and …

Odontocete cetaceans bioaccumulate high concentrations of endocrine disrupting persistent
organic pollutants (POPs), including dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) …

Understanding baseline hormone levels, the magnitude of intra-individual variability, and
their variation as a function of life history is difficult in toothed whales (eg dolphins and …

Blubber has been proposed as a possible alternative to blood in the assessment of
endocrine physiology in marine mammals because it can be collected via remote biopsy …

A total of 164 blood samples from 16 clinically healthy bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops
truncatus), were obtained from an aquarium in Spain between 2019 and 2020, as part of …

As studies quantifying steroid hormones in marine mammal blubber progress,
methodological refinements may improve the utility and consistency of blubber hormone …

Rationale A liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) method was
validated and utilized to measure and analyze four steroid hormones related to stress and …

Marine mammal blubber is known to have quantifiable concentrations of steroid hormones
and is increasingly chosen as a matrix for the detection of these reproductive and stress …

Cold stress in poultry is a global problem that causes huge economic losses and threatens
the health and welfare of poultry. However, knowledge of chicken responses to virus …