Maternal parity affects neonatal survival rate in a colony of captive bred baboons (Papio hamadryas)

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 223-228

  Sunderland, Neroli ^a,b   Heffernan, Scott ^b   Thomson, Sally ^b   Hennessy, Annemarie ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gestation; Infant mortality; Non human primate; Pregnancy outcome; Primiparity; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; BREEDING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPARA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PARITY; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVAL RATE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

EID: 53149151887     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2007.00277.x     Document Type: Article

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