Method development: Assigning sex to African clawless otter spraints and assessing stability of faecal androgen and progestagen metabolites post-defaecation.

African clawless otters Androgens Hormone monitoring Non-invasive Progestagens Stability post-defaecation Using African clawless otter spraints to quantify reproductive hormones fAM:fPM ratio

Journal

MethodsX
ISSN: 2215-0161
Titre abrégé: MethodsX
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101639829

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Dec 2024
Historique:
received: 12 06 2024
accepted: 30 07 2024
medline: 31 8 2024
pubmed: 31 8 2024
entrez: 29 8 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Monitoring reproductive physiology in wildlife can be a useful tool for assessing population dynamics for conservation and management purposes. Utilizing non-invasive approaches for this, such as quantifying reproductive hormone metabolites from faeces, can be challenging when defaecation events are not observed, or when cryptic species like African clawless otters (

Identifiants

pubmed: 39206057
doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2024.102883
pii: S2215-0161(24)00335-2
pmc: PMC11350257
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

102883

Informations de copyright

© 2024 The Author(s).

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Auteurs

Marli Burger (M)

Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Endocrine Research Laboratory, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Andrea B Webster (AB)

Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Endocrine Research Laboratory, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Tshepiso L Majelantle (TL)

Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Endocrine Research Laboratory, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Juan Scheun (J)

Department Nature Conservation, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.

Andre Ganswindt (A)

Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Endocrine Research Laboratory, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

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