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Instrumentation of Near-term Fetal Sheep for Multivariate Chronic Non-anesthetized Recordings
Published on: October 25, 2015
[Hormones and development of sexual behaviour in the domestic sheep (author's transl)]
Abstract:
All motor patterns of male sexual behaviour can be observed in young lambs from the first days of the life. They considerably increase on weeks 2 to 5 when they decrease dramatically and remain stable up to over 6 months of age. This evolution has no direct relation with that of the physiological events. The adult female has a complete bisexual potentiality. The development of the sexual behaviour during ontogeny appears as a continuous process rather than to be limited to the period of puberty or sexual differentiation.
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