Journal article
Unconfounded evidence of sex‐biased, postnatal maternal effort by mongolian gerbil dams
Abstract
In previous studies of effects of offspring sex on postnatal maternal effort there has often been unintentional confounding of the sex ratio of the pups that a dam reared with the sex ratio of the litter that she gestated. By controlling the sex ratio of litters that female subjects gestated, we showed that (1) the probability of dams retrieving pups was influenced by the sex ratio of the litters dams gestated, not by the sex of litters that …
Authors
Clark MM; Galef BG
Journal
Developmental Psychobiology, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 539–546
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
December 1991
DOI
10.1002/dev.420240802
ISSN
0012-1630