Measures of growth, development, and sexual maturation in mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus): Effects of photic period during ontogeny

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 191-202

  Clark, Mertice M ^a   Galef, Bennett G ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GROWTH; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; EYE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LIGHT; PERIODICITY; PREGNANCY; SEX MATURATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VAGINA;

EID: 0021954956     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.420180210     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Growth, longevity, and reproductive life of the Mongolian gerbil
2. Sexual maturation and fecundity of wild and domestic Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)
3. Effects of rearing environment on adrenal weights, sexual development and behavior in gerbils: An examination of Richter's domestication hypothesis
4. Environmental influence on development, behavior and endocrine morphology of gerbils
5. Sexual maturation of female house mice: Social inhibition
6. Female mouse maturation: Relative importance of social factors and day length
7. Selection for age of sexual maturation in mice and the consequences for population regulation
8. First estrus in rats in relation to age, weight, and length
9. Weight at menarche: Similarity for well‐nourished and undernourished girls at different ages and evidence for historical constancy
10. Height and weight at menarche and a hypothesis of critical body weights and adolescent events
11. Investigation of the functions of coprophagy in juvenile rats
12. Body composition at vaginal opening in mice as influenced by food intake and photoperiod: Tests of critical body weight and composition hypotheses for puberty onset
13. Behavioral development in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)
14. Body weight and food intake as initiating factors for puberty in the rat
15. Reproductive performance of young female mice following vaginal opening
16. Factors influencing the onset of puberty in albino rats
17. The breeding, management and reproductive physiology of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)
18. Early postnatal growth and the development of temperature regulation in the Mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus
19. Compensatory growth and sexual maturity in mice
20. Time of mating and associated changes in the vaginal smear of the post‐parturient Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)
21. Development of gonadotropin regulation in the prepubertal mammal
22. Effect of the presence of a male on the sexual maturation of female mice
23. Social and dietary factors in the sexual maturation of female mice
24. Pubertal food intake, body length, weight and composition in the well fed female rat