Failure of Lactation to Have a Consistent Effect on Interbirth Interval in the Common Marmoset, Callithrix jacchus jacchus
- 8 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Brill in Folia Primatologica
- Vol. 37 (1-2), 99-105
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000156023
Abstract
Analysis of intervals between successive births, or of the interval between spontaneous or induced abortion and subsequent birth, indicate that unlike most primates for which information is available, lactation does not consistently influence the ability of the common marmoset to conceive during the early post-partum period.Keywords
This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
- Peripheral plasma levels of progesterone, oestradiol-17 , oestrone, testosterone, androstenedione and chorionic gonadotrophin during pregnancy in the marmoset monkey, Callithrix jacchusReproduction, 1979
- Annual Reproductive Strategy of the Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri sciureus)Folia Primatologica, 1978
- Interactions between parents and infants, and the development of independence in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)Animal Behaviour, 1977
- The Reproductive Potential of the Common Cotton-Eared Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) in CaptivityJournal of Medical Primatology, 1976
- A Three‐Year Study of Mating Behavior in a Freeranging Band of Rhesus MonkeysEcology, 1965
- The reproductive cycle of New World monkeysJournal of Anatomy, 1939