Primate breeding season: Photoperiodic regulation in captive lemur catta

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 24, Issue 2-3, 1975, Pages 203-220

  Van Horn, Richard N ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding season; Lemur catta Prosimian reproduction; Photoperiodicity; Primate Estrous cycles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BREEDING; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; LIGHT; MALE; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROSIMIAN; SEASON;

ANIMAL; BREEDING; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LEMUR; LIGHT; MALE; PERIODICITY; PREGNANCY; SEASONS; STREPSIRHINI; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0016411944     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000155690     Document Type: Article

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