Detection of successful and unsuccessful pregnancies in mice within hours of pairing through frequency analysis of high temporal resolution core body temperature data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Smarr, Benjamin L ^a   Zucker, Irving ^a   Kriegsfeld, Lance J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREGNANCY TEST; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; WAVELET ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BODY TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84982730451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160127     Document Type: Article

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