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Monteiro,Rafael Veríssimo; Santos,Márcio Ricardo Costa dos; Vianna,Eduardo Borges; Araújo,Tatiana Cardoso Soares de; Verona,Carlos Eduardo; Fedullo,Luís Paulo Luzes. |
Serial clinical, colpo-cytological and endocrinological examinations of two five-year-old females of the crab-eating dog (Cerdocyon thous), from the RIOZOO Foundation in the State of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, were carried out over a 10-month period. Clinically healthy animals were kept in sand substratum enclosures, located 500m apart from each other. They were each housed with two males. The colpo-cytological technique employed for Cerdocyon thous used methods similar to those developed for domestic bitches. Unlike domestic dogs, blood cells were absent in all phases of the estrus cycle, including the pro-estrus phase. Differentiation of each type of vaginal cells during the estrus cycle phases in this species follows the same patterns shown by domestic... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Canidae; Cytology; Endocrinology; Reproduction. |
Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-95962002000200007 |
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