Journal article
Nonrandom sex composition of gerbil, mouse, and hamster litters before and after birth
Abstract
Examining data describing the sex composition of 1074 Caesarean-delivered litters of house mice, 253 Caesarean-delivered and 265 vaginally delivered litters of Mongolian gerbils, and 854 vaginally delivered litters of golden hamsters, we determined whether segregation of sexes between uterine horns and correlations between litter size and litter sex ratio were present in each of the three rodent species studied. Although significant deviations …
Authors
Clark MM; Galef BG; vom Saal FS
Journal
Developmental Psychobiology, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 81–90
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
March 1991
DOI
10.1002/dev.420240202
ISSN
0012-1630