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Welcome to HormoneBase, a comprehensive database of un-manipulated measures of plasma glucocorticoids and androgens from free-living, adult vertebrates. HormoneBase was developed by an international team of biologists and database specialists. As of May 2018, this resource is freely available to the global scientific community, to facilitate research into the function and evolution of hormones and the traits they mediate.

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HormoneBase is a database that aims to include all available measures of plasma androgens (testosterone and 11-ketotestosterone) and glucocorticoids (corticosterone and cortisol; including baseline and stress-induced measures) from free-living, adult vertebrates, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. As of December 2017, we have attempted to compile all records of these circulating hormones published through… Continue reading About

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Vitousek MN*, MA Johnson*, JW Donald, CD Francis, MJ Fuxjager, W Goymann, M Hau, JF Husak, BK Kircher, R Knapp, LB Martin, ET Miller, LA Schoenle, TD Williams. 2018. HormoneBase, a population-level database of steroid hormone levels across vertebrates. Scientific Data 5: 180097. DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.97 Vitousek, MN, MA Johnson, and JF Husak. 2018. Illuminating endocrine evolution:… Continue reading Publications