Pup growth rates and breeding female weight changes in two populations of captive bred degus (Octodon degus), a precocial caviomorph rodent

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 975-982

  Long, C V ^a   Ebensperger, L A ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; NEWBORN; OCTODON; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, WILD; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; MALE; OCTODON; PREGNANCY;

CAVIOMORPHA; OCTODON; OCTODON DEGUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 78649615693     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2009.01470.x     Document Type: Article

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