Summary
This study created physiological and histological reference data for reproduction in North American deer mice. Continuous body temperature could identify copulation and pregnancy after animals were paired, although it did not predict beforehand which pairs would breed, while daily placental histology produced the first developmental atlas for a Peromyscus species and revealed distinctive trophoblast organization. UID UCT-2112 microchips supplied longitudinal temperature records.
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