Teasing apart socially-induced infertility in non-reproductive female Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 311-320

  Bennett, Nigel C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bathyergidae; Mole rat; Reproduction; Social suppression

Indexed keywords

BATHYERGIDAE; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

BETA ENDORPHIN; GONADORELIN; HYDROCORTISONE; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NALOXONE;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GONAD; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLE RAT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ANIMALS; BETA-ENDORPHIN; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; KISSPEPTINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MOLE RATS; NALOXONE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84868150254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2011.00263.x     Document Type: Review

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