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Selected Aspects of Reproductive Behavior of American Mink (Neovison vison) under Artificial Conditions [PDF]

Animals, 2023
Observation and behavioral analysis of animals can be one of the factors taken into consideration when assessing the welfare of animals kept in artificially created breeding conditions.
Beata Seremak, Bogumiła Pilarczyk, Aleksandra Wojciechowska, Agnieszka Tomza-Marciniak   +3 more
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Evolution of Reproductive Behavior. [PDF]

Genetics, 2020
Abstract Behaviors associated with reproduction are major contributors to the evolutionary success of organisms and are subject to many evolutionary forces, including natural and sexual selection, and sexual conflict. Successful reproduction involves a range of behaviors, from finding an appropriate mate, courting, and copulation, to the
Anholt RRH, O'Grady P, Wolfner MF, Harbison ST.   +3 more
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Contactin‐6‐deficient male mice exhibit the abnormal function of the accessory olfactory system and impaired reproductive behavior [PDF]

Brain and Behavior, 2023
Introduction Contactin‐6 (CNTN6), also known as NB‐3, is a neural recognition molecule and a member of the contactin subgroup of the immunoglobulin superfamily.
Wei Zhang, Huiling Huang, Ailing Gui, Di Mu, Tian Zhao, Hongtao Li, Kazutada Watanabe, Zhicheng Xiao, Haihong Ye, Yiliang Xu   +9 more
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Reproductive Behavior of the Polyembryonic Parasitoid Copidosomopsis nacoleiae (Eady) at Different Ages [PDF]

Insects
In the control of agricultural and forestry pests, excessive reliance on chemical pesticides has led to increasingly severe issues, such as toxic residues and heightened pest resistance. The effective use of biological control has become a major focus in
Huili Ouyang, Dongyu Chen, Peng Xiang, Xiaoyun Wang, Wen Lu, Xialin Zheng   +5 more
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The Cause Is Reproductive Behavior. [PDF]

Dtsch Arztebl Int, 2015
The harvesting of unfertilized oocytes for cryopreservation is, in the widest sense, a continuation of the introduction of hormonal contraception 50 years ago. Back then, women wanted to make their own decision about the timing of their pregnancies. “Social freezing” is similar. The difference is the factor that is time.
Wenderlein JM.
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Predictors of Permanent Childlessness in Iranian Women (Using the 2016 National Census Microdata Sample) [PDF]

Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System, 2022
Background: Dramatic changes in the demographic behaviors of Iranian women have led to declining fertility after the mid-1980s. Childlessness is an important and growing issue and has increasingly become the focus of the problem by Iranian population ...
Serajeddin Mahmoudiani
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Number of Births and Risk of Diabetes in China's Older Women

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
As an important life event in individuals' life, childbirth will affect the health of women to different degrees. More and more attention has been paid to whether the number of births will affect the incident diabetes in elderly women, but there are few ...
Ying-wen Gu, Shuo Zhang, Jia-hao Wang, Hua-lei Yang, Si-qing Zhang, Yi-dan Yao, Yuan-yang Wu, Lin Xie, Zhi-yun Li, Jin-yan Cao   +9 more
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Investigating the relationship between attitudes toward fertility and childbearing and the value of children with attitudes toward fertility control in married women aged 15-45 in Isfahan

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2022
BACKGROUND: The family is one of the important social institutions and the function of childbearing is one of the important functions of the family.
Shahnaz Kohan, Mahboobe Gholami, Fatemeh Shaghaghi, Zahra Mohebbi-Dehnavi   +3 more
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Mate Preference Plasticity in a Critically Endangered Frog: Implications for Conservation Breeding

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2021
Variation in female mate preferences for male traits remains poorly understood (both among and within females), despite having important evolutionary and conservation implications, particularly for captive breeding.
Shannon R. Kelleher, Aimee J. Silla, Anne G. Hertel, Niels J. Dingemanse, Phillip G. Byrne   +4 more
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Air pollution and timing of childbirth: a retrospective survey analysis based on birth registration data of Chinese newborns

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectivesCurrently, there is a lack of research on whether people will take action to avoid the harm of air pollution and the heterogeneous behavior of different groups.
Liqi Lu, Shaoyang Zhao, Yuxiao Chen
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