By H. H. Swanson (auth.), Professor Dr. Raymond Gilles, Dr. Jacques Balthazart (eds.)
This quantity is a kind of released from the court cases of the invited lectures to the 1st foreign Congress of Comparative body structure and Biochemistry I geared up at Liege (Belgium) in August 1984 less than the auspices of the element of Comparative body structure and Biochemistry of the foreign Union of organic Sciences. In a normal foreword to those assorted volumes, it kind of feels to me applicable to think about in brief what could be the comparative method. dwelling organisms, past the variety in their morphological types, have developed a common diversity of easy ideas to deal with the several difficulties, either organismal and environmental with which they're confronted. quickly after the flip of the century, a few biologists learned that those options should be most sensible comprehended within the body paintings of a comparative method integrating result of physiological and biochemical reports performed on the organismic, mobile and molecular degrees. the improvement of this procedure among either physiologists and biochemists remained, although, tremendous gradual until eventually recently.
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Indeed, female solicitations to the males, an index of their willingness to mate, increase after ovariectomy (Zumpe and Michael 1970), a finding in marked contrast to many rodent species. Sexual interactions with the male do, however, vary during the menstrual cycle, being more frequent in the follicular phase especially around mid-cycle for a number of primate species (Talapoin - Scruton and Herbert 1970; Patas monkey - Rowell and Hartwell 1978; Pigtail macaque - Tokuda et al. 1968; Eaton and Resko 1974; Chacma baboon - Saayman 1970; Gelada baboon - Dunbar 1978; Gorilla - Nadler 1975a; Chimpanzee - Tutin 1980; Macaca fascicularis - Zumpe and Michael 1983).
We have recently analyzed in greater detail some of the physiological correlates of behavioural oestrus in female prairie voles. Females were exposed to a male for 18 h and then maintained in male-soiled bedding for an additional 30 h to maximize the possibility of oestrus induction without permitting mating. A large number of females treated in this manner did not come into behavioural oestrus (Fig. 9, Activated, Nonoestrus). Females showing at least one lordosis were defined as oestrus (tested without permitting intromission and were then randomly assigned to one of the treatment groups shown in Table 5 and Fig.
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