Mouse puberty delay

Novotny M., Ma W., Zidek L. and Daev E. (1999). Recent biochemical insights into puberty acceleration, estrus induction, and puberty delay in the house mouse. In Advances in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates (Johnston R.L., Miiller-Schwarze D. and Sorenson P., eds.), pp. 99-116. 

Stimuli other than chemical cues can play an important role in puberty delay in females. In the California mouse, Peromyscus californicus, which is monogamous, physical contact with the mother, and not a urinary chemosignal per se, is necessary for delay of puberty of females (Gubernick and Nordby, 1992). 

FIGURE 8.3 Puberty-delaying compounds in female mouse urine. 

Coppola, D. M. (1986). The puberty delaying pheromone of the house mouse field data and a new evolutionary perspective. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, vol. 4, ed. D. Duvall, D. Miiller-Schwarze, and R. M. Silverstein, pp. 457-462 New York Plenum. 

At the level of chemical compounds, one compound may substitute for another, and the activity still remains the same. Different numbers and types of compounds in a single secretion may have the same effect. The puberty delay pheromone in female mice and the castoreum of beaver are examples. In the mouse, of six adrenal-dependent compounds, two acetates are active together, one pyrazine by itself, and all three together with no increase in activity (Novotny et al.). In beaver castoreum, a mixture of 12 neutrals (monoterpenes) released the same activity as 14 phenolics (Schulte et al. 1994). A third example is the combination of androstenol and androstenone that form the boar pheromone in the male pig s saliva. Both induce the sow s mating stance alone and in combination (Melrose et al., 1971). 

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