Pubertal weight gain in female rhesus macaques

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 449-454

  Blackwelder, Torina L ^a   Golub, Mari S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colony weights; Female; Growth; Maturation; Puberty; Rhesus macaques; Weight gain

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PUBERTY; RHESUS MONKEY; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; SEXUAL MATURATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0030070498     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199603)99:3<449::AID-AJPA6>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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