Communal nursing in mice: influence of multiple mothers on the growth of the young |
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Authors: | A Sayler M Salmon |
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Abstract: | Female mice will combine their litters into a communal nest. The young raised in a communal nest show faster rates of growth during the first 20 days than young raised by single females, even when the ratio of mothers to young is the same. |
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