Calcium availability influences litter size and sex ratio in white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Schmidt, Christina M ^a   Hood, Wendy R ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BODY MASS; BONE MASS; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULLIPARA; OSTEOLYSIS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PROGENY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRABECULAR BONE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; PEROMYSCUS; REPRODUCTION;

PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864744490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041402     Document Type: Article

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