Monitoring the reproductive activity in captive bred female ball pythons (P. regius) by ultrasound evaluation and noninvasive analysis of faecal reproductive hormone (progesterone and 17β-estradiol) metabolites trends

• Mara Bertocchi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, Università degli Studi di Parma, Via Del Taglio, Parma, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6695-9332

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• Igor Pelizzone,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Ambulatorio Veterinario Belvedere, Reggio Emilia, Italy

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• Enrico Parmigiani,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, Università degli Studi di Parma, Via Del Taglio, Parma, Italy

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• Patrizia Ponzio,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Leonardo da Vinci, Grugliasco (TO), Italy

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• Elisabetta Macchi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Leonardo da Vinci, Grugliasco (TO), Italy

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• Federico Righi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, Università degli Studi di Parma, Via Del Taglio, Parma, Italy

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• Nicola Di Girolamo,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Tai Wai Small Animal and Exotic Hospital, Lap Wo Building, Tai Wai, Sha Tin, Hong Kong

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• Enrico Bigliardi ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

  * E-mail: enrico.bigliardi@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, Università degli Studi di Parma, Via Del Taglio, Parma, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7969-1518

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• Laura Denti,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, Università degli Studi di Parma, Via Del Taglio, Parma, Italy

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• Carla Bresciani,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, Università degli Studi di Parma, Via Del Taglio, Parma, Italy

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• Francesco Di Ianni

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, Università degli Studi di Parma, Via Del Taglio, Parma, Italy

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