Seasonal reproduction and delayed sexual maturity in mound-building mice Mus spicilegus

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 187-195

  Gouat, Patrick ^a   Féron, Christophe ^a   Demouron, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUTUMN; BREEDING SUCCESS; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL MATURITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPRING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VEGETABLE; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS SPICILEGUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041326498     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD02105     Document Type: Review

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