Open AccessLIMITS ON LACTATION
Author(s) -
Kathryn Phillips
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of experimental biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.367
H-Index - 185
eISSN - 1477-9145
pISSN - 0022-0949
DOI - 10.1242/jeb.014266
Subject(s) - lactation , girl , litter , nursing , agricultural science , biology , psychology , medicine , ecology , pregnancy , developmental psychology , genetics
![Figure][1] Nursing mouse mothers must be hungry all the time. Feeding multiple greedy mouths takes a lot out of a girl. So what limits the amount of energy a nursing mother can supply her litter? According to John Speakman, a mother is limited by the amount of energy she can take in, but
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