Female meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, experience a reduction in copulatory behavior during postpartum estrus

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 466-473

  DelBarco Trillo, Javier ^a,b   Ferkin, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COPULATION; RODENT;

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 34247153963     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01354.x     Document Type: Article

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