Noninvasive monitoring of reproductive activity based on fecal progestagen profiles and sexual behavior in koalas, Phascolarctos cinereus

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1033-1040

  Kusuda, Satoshi ^a   Hashikawa, Hisashi ^b   Takeda, Masato ^c   Takeda, Kazuhito ^d   Ito, Hideki ^b   Ogata Kobayashi, Yuka ^e   Hashimoto, Masako ^e   Ogata, Mitsuaki ^f   Morikaku, Koki ^f   Araki, Sayaka ^a   Makino, Tsubasa ^a   Doi, Osamu ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nagoya Higashiyama Zoo   (Japan)

^c Osaka Municipal Tennoji Zoological Gardens   (Japan)

^d Awaji Farm Park England Hill Zoo ^*  (Japan)

^e Kanazawa Zoological Gardens of Yokohama   (Japan)

^f Preservation and Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estrus; Fecal hormone; Induced ovulator; Marsupial; Ovulation; Ovulatory cycle; Pregnancy; Progesterone; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

GESTAGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES LEVEL; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; KOALA; LUTEAL PHASE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

METATHERIA; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COPULATION; ESTROUS CYCLE; FECES; FEMALE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; PARTURITION; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTINS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 73949109357     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.076950     Document Type: Article

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