Example sentences for: voles

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  • Subsequent to early studies that established the pheromonal qualities of male urine to synchronize estrous cycles of laboratory mice [ 2 ] , sexual maturation in female mice was shown to be accelerated by male pheromones [ 3 ] and retarded by female pheromones [ 4 ] . Pheromonal induction of first estrus in juvenile females has been reported in a variety of other mammals including prairie voles [ 5 ] , pigs [ 6 ] , and opossums [ 7 ] .

  • Pheromone exposure activates the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis as evidenced in increased plasma LH in opossums [ 32 ] and voles [ 33 ] , and ovarian activation and subsequent steroid hormone production could stimulate somatic growth indirectly by effects on growth hormone and fat deposition, or alterations in metabolism and appetite.

  • 67 mm) in superovulated opossums [ 22 ] . This increased size of developing follicles in exposed opossums is similar in magnitude to that seen in the pre-Graafian follicles of rats between diestrus and proestrus [ 23 ] . Prepubertal pine voles exposed to male urine also showed an increase in the number of largest follicles, but with no change in atresia [ 24 ] , as in our study.

  • Because there are rodent species with no SRY gene and no Y chromosome [ 16], any of these genes or the X-linked DAX1 gene [ 17] might be considered candidates for a sex-determining gene in the XX rodents such as mole voles whose body plan is not so different from that of mice.

  • Juvenile and adult prairie voles exhibit a similar response to male stimuli.


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