Communal Nursing in Mice: Influence of Multiple Mothers on the Growth of the Young

作者: A. Sayler , M. Salmon

DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.164.3885.1309

关键词: Communal nursingDemographyNestBiology

摘要: Female mice will combine their litters into a communal nest. The young raised in nest show faster rates of growth during the first 20 days than by single females, even when ratio mothers to is same.

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