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Our findings provide the critical descriptive groundwork for further investigations into the physiological pathways and underlying mechanisms involved in pheromonal regulation of somatic and sexual maturation in opossums.
Moreover, this growth response marks a difference between pheromonal acceleration of puberty in opossums and that which is well-documented in mice, wherein females paired with males ovulate at a lower body mass (< 20 g) than that of isolated females (> 20 g) [ 30 31 ] .
Thus, play ball with seems obvious; but mad as a hatter , though properly a simile, needs an explanation; play possum is meaningful only to those who have been told what it means or have had direct experience with the behavior of opossums.
All procedures relating to care and use of opossums in this study were described in protocols approved by the Institutional Laboratory Animal Care and Use Committee at The Ohio State University.
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.