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Factors influencing ease of whelping and its relationship with maternal behaviour and puppy perinatal mortality in commercially bred dogs

For dog breeders, parturition is a critical stage in the reproductive cycle of the dam. Evidence in other mammals suggests that a difficult labour can influence maternal behaviour and offspring viability during the first hours postpartum. However, the effect of whelping difficulty on the onset of ma...

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Autores principales: Baqueiro-Espinosa, Uri, McEvoy, Victoria, Arnott, Gareth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9035175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35461375
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10707-w