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The one female killed at estrus, however, did have the highest plasma estradiol concentration as well as the heaviest reproductive organs.
Three of four exposed females expressed estrus by 130 days; a fourth was in proestrus, and the fifth remained anestrous.
Juvenile females in this study were exposed to male scentmarks from the age of 90 days, but they did not express first estrus until 130 days, much longer than the average of 7 days required for pheromonal induction of estrus in adults.
Twenty-five crossbred, cyclic gilts were checked for estrus twice daily in the presence of an intact boar and naturally mated at the onset of the second estrus and again 24 hrs later.
Sixty grams is confirmed as a critical body mass for induction of estrus in juvenile female opossums as identified in our previous study [ 7 ] . Somatic growth and attainment of a threshold body mass or energy reserves are known requisites for puberty in many mammals including the tammar wallaby [ 26 ] , sheep [ 27 28 ] , and several species of rodents [ 1 ] , but these factors seldom act independently of environmental factors such as photoperiod [ 26 27 ] or social cues [ 3 29 ] . The opossum is unusual in this regard, because social cues in the form of male pheromone appear to stimulate both somatic growth and ovarian activation.