Two of a kind or a full house? Reproductive suppression and alloparenting in laboratory mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Garner, Joseph P ^a   Gaskill, Brianna N ^b,c   Pritchett Corning, Kathleen R ^b,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Charles River   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBINO; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANTICIDE; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OUTBRED MOUSE STRAIN; PARENTHOOD; PIGMENTED MOUSE; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WEANING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; WEANING;

EID: 85016817023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154966     Document Type: Article

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