Remarks on the Reproduction, Sex Ratio, and Life Expectancy of the Varying Lemming, Dicrostonyx Groenlandicus, in Nature and Captivity | Zendy

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Remarks on the Reproduction, Sex Ratio, and Life Expectancy of the Varying Lemming, <i>Dicrostonyx Groenlandicus</i>, in Nature and Captivity

Author(s) -

T. H. Manning

Publication year - 1954

Publication title -

arctic

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503

H-Index - 59

eISSN - 1923-1245

pISSN - 0004-0843

DOI - 10.14430/arctic3827

Subject(s) - sexual maturity , captivity , litter , reproduction , life expectancy , zoology , biology , gestation period , ecology , demography , gestation , population , pregnancy , sociology , genetics

Contains results of a study between Sept. 1949 and Sept. 1953, of a colony started from 16 Greenland varying lemmings and one Mackenzie varying lemming (D.g. kilangmiutak ). Records of the colony are compared with field observations and more detailed work done on related genera. Subjects discussed include: age of sexual maturity, litter size, gestation period and litter frequency, sex ratios, care of young, life expectancy and disease.

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