Development of the sexual skin with pubertal maturation in female chimpanzees

Primates

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-101

  Mori, Yusuke ^a   Shimoda, Kohji ^a   Kobayashi, Hisao ^a   Hayasaka, Ikuo ^a   Hamada, Yuzuru ^b  

^a SANWA KAGAKU KENKYUSHO CO LTD   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Menarche; Photogrametry; Puberty; Sexual skin

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY; MATURATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PRIMATE; SWELLING;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HISTOLOGY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEXUAL MATURATION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 33947235682     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-006-0030-1     Document Type: Article

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