Onset of sexual maturation in female mice as measured in behavior and fertility: Interactions of exposure to males, phytoestrogen content of diet, and ano-genital distance

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 588-594

  Khan, Ayesha ^a   Bellefontaine, Nicole ^a   deCatanzaro, Denys ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ano genital Distance; Fertility; Lordosis; Mice; Phytoestrogens; Puberty; Sexual Receptivity

Indexed keywords

PHYTOESTROGEN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GESTURE; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SURVIVAL;

EID: 38849134212     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.10.019     Document Type: Article

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