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      Effect of intrauterine position and social density on age of first reproduction in wild-type female house mice (Mus musculus).

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          In laboratory strains of mice, reproductive maturation is influenced by both the fetal and the peripubertal social environments experienced by females. Intrauterine position (IUP) for female fetuses is identified by the number of adjacent males; where 0M have zero, 1M have one, and 2M have two male neighbors. We sought to confirm, using wild-type female house mice (Mus musculus), the previous finding in the CF-1 strain of laboratory mouse that males prefer 0M over 2M females as mates. We recorded the age at first reproduction for females of known IUP housed either individually with a male or in a group of 6 females and a male. In neither housing condition were there significant differences in age of first reproduction among females of different IUPs, but 0M females that were group housed had perforate vaginas at an earlier age than other group-housed females. Mean (+/- SE) age at first reproduction was 58.1 (+/- 3.3) for paired and 126.6 (+/- 5.1) for group-housed females. The reproductive suppression observed in the grouped females was probably due to the interaction of inhibitory urinary chemosignals, low body weights, and female dominance hierarchies.

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          Journal
          J Comp Psychol
          Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983)
          0735-7036
          0021-9940
          Jun 1991
          : 105
          : 2
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695-7617.
          Article
          1860307
          345de97b-e0b9-451c-b0f4-73d40cc791d5
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