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Fluctuating asymmetry as a proxy for oxidative stress in wild boar
Cánovas, Miguel
Mentaberre, Gregorio
Tvarijonaviciute, Asta
Casas-Díaz, Encarna
Navarro-González, Nora
Lavín, Santiago
Soriguer, Ramón C.
Gónzalez-Candela, M.
Serrano, Emmanuel
Ecological indicators
Developmental instability
Physiological stress
Sus scrofa
© 2015 Deutsche Gesellschaft fü Säugetierkunde. The study of fluctuating asymmetry (FA) in living organisms has produced contradictory results over the past few decades of research. Though the protocol for measuring FA is firmly established, the sources of FA remain unclear in many cases. Our goal is to examine the relationship between FA and both the concentration of biomarkers of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and body condition in a medium-sized mammal, the European wild boar (Sus scrofa). Using a Partial Least Squares regression (PLSr), we found a positive significant relationship (Stone-Geisser test) between oxidative stress and FA but a negative relationship between oxidative stress and body condition. Our results suggest that FA can be used to assess the physiological costs associated with oxidative stress in mammals.
2015
2015-11-18T11:40:07Z
artículo
Mammalian Biology 80: 285- 289 (2015)
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/125267
10.1016/j.mambio.2015.03.004
eng
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