Concentrations of sex steroid hormones in pregnant and fetal mongolian gerbils

Sex steroid concentrations in the plasma of 24-day pregnant Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) and their male and female fetuses were measured using radioimmunoassays. It was found that, on Day 24 of gestation: (a) androgen levels were higher in those male fetuses developing adjacent to no female fetuses than in those male fetuses developing between two female fetuses and (b) androgen levels were higher in those female fetuses developing …