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Validation of a Fecal T3 Metabolite Assay for Measuring Energetics in Wild Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana)

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Acknowledgments

We thank Professor Zhongqiu Li for help with sample transport. We are grateful to Prof. Jolanta Opacka-Juffry and Balbir Singh Josen for their help with the radiorecovery experiment, and Profs. Ann MacLarnon and Stuart Semple for facilitating our work in the laboratory at the University of Roehampton. The study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31870509 and 31670397).

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  1. Jurgi Cristόbal-Azkarate

    Present address: Department of Basic Psychological Processes and their Development, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastián, 20018, Spain

  2. Haochun Chen and Hui Yao contributed equally to this work.

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  1. College of Life Science and Technology, Central South University of Forestry & Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Haochun Chen, Hui Yao & Zuofu Xiang

  2. Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Biology, Central South University of Forestry & Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Haochun Chen

  3. Key Lab of Conservation Biology for Shennongjia Golden Monkey, Hubei Province, Shennongjia Forest District, Hubei, China

    Hui Yao & Wanjin Yang

  4. Department for Behavioral Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Julia Ostner

  5. Primate Social Evolution Group, German Primate Centre, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

    Julia Ostner

  6. Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB23QY, UK

    Jurgi Cristόbal-Azkarate

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JCA, ZX, and JO conceived and designed the study. HC, HY, and WY collected the sample. JCA performed the hormone analysis and the extraction efficiency and analytical validation tests. ZX, JO, and JCA analyzed the data. JCA, HC, ZX, and JO wrote the article. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Correspondence to Zuofu Xiang, Julia Ostner or Jurgi Cristόbal-Azkarate.

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Chen, H., Yao, H., Yang, W. et al. Validation of a Fecal T3 Metabolite Assay for Measuring Energetics in Wild Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana). Int J Primatol 42, 759–763 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-021-00236-0

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