Journal article
Hormonally mediated inheritance of acquired characteristics in Mongolian gerbils
Abstract
THE intrauterine position relative to members of the same or opposite sex that a rodent fetus occupies affects both its morphology and behaviour when adult1–14. Female fetuses that mature between males are androgenized by testosterone crossing fetal membranes15,16, and their phenotypes as adults differ significantly from those of sisters that received less intrauterine exposure to exogenous testosterone17–20. We report here that adult female …
Authors
Clark MM; Karpiuk P; Galef BG
Journal
Nature, Vol. 364, No. 6439, pp. 712–712
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
August 19, 1993
DOI
10.1038/364712a0
ISSN
0028-0836