Journal article
Fetal uterine position affects copulation and scent marking by adult male gerbils
Abstract
Those male Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) that as fetuses resided in uterine locations adjacent to no females, when adult, scent marked more frequently, mounted estrous females with shorter latencies, and ejaculated after fewer intromissions than did those male gerbils that as fetuses resided in uterine locations adjacent to two females. Both the scent-marking frequencies and copulatory patterns of adult males were positively …
Authors
Clark MM; Malenfant SA; Winter DA; Galef BG
Journal
Physiology & Behavior, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 301–305
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
February 1990
DOI
10.1016/0031-9384(90)90146-u
ISSN
0031-9384