Example sentences for: estrus

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  • The mean age at estrus, 127.

  • More importantly, advancing the age of first estrus by pheromone exposure was accompanied by an apparent acceleration of somatic growth such that this critical body mass was reached at a younger age.

  • This suggests that age at first estrus varied from 109 to 162 days, depending on pheromone exposure [ 7 ] . However, body mass at first estrus was remarkably close to 60 g in all females, indicating that puberty in opossums, as in most mammals, is dependent on attainment of a threshold body mass.

  • The animals (two at each time of the cycle) were sacrificed on proestrus (P1000 and 2000 h), estrus (E0200 and E1000 h), diestrus I (DI, 1100 h) and diestrus II (DII, 1100 h).

  • An earlier study found that juvenile females isolated from all adult stimuli from 90 days of age grew to adult size (60 g) but failed to express first estrus by 180 days [ 7 ] . In contrast, all females exposed directly to male pheromones by cage switching reached first estrus at an average age of 127 days, and more than half of females individually caged (i.e.


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