
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wilson, BA 
T1  - Reproduction in the Female Dasyurid Antechinus-Minimus-Maritimus (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae)
JF  - Australian Journal of Zoology
JO  - Aust. J. Zool.
Y1  - 1986
VL  - 34
IS  - 2
SP  - 189
EP  - 197
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9860189 
N2  - Reproduction in female Antechinus minimus maritimus was investigated in the field and laboratory. Field data were obtained from a mark-recapture study. A laboratory colony was maintained to investigate the oestrous pattern, length of gestation and development of pouch young. Breeding occurred in winter with births in July or August. Gestation (mean ± SD) was 30.6 ± l.5 days for animals mated in the laboratory. Epithelial cells were present in the urine for 34.8 ± 8.3 days, a lengthy period compared to A. stuartii (19.3 ± 4.4 days). Ovaries from females before the breeding season contained small developing follicles. During the breeding season Graafian follicles (4-8 per ovary) or corpora lutea (4-13 per ovary) were found. Reproduction in A. m. maritimus females is similar to that described previously in other Antechinus. 
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