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KMID : 0381920100400030125
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Korean Journal of Microscopy
2010 Volume.40 No. 3 p.125 ~ p.132
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Age Determination by Tooth Wear and Histological Analysis of Seasonal Variation of Breeding in the Lesser White-Toothed Shrew, Crocidura suaveolens
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Jeong Soon-Jeong
Yoon Myung-Hee
Kim Sook-Hyang
Ham Joo-Hyun
Lim Do-Seon
Choi Baik-Dong
Park Jin-Ju
Jeong Moon-Jin
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Abstract
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Captured specimens of the lesser white-toothed shrew, Crocidura suaveolens were classified into three age classes by tooth wear and seasonal variations of reproductive organs were investigated. Molars of juveniles had not tooth wear and the height of the third molars were lower than the first and second molars, young adults had smooth tooth wear and the third molars reached to the first and second molars, and old adults had heavy tooth wear and the third molars also reached to the first and second molars. On the basis of histological examination, seasonal variation of breeding was confirmed that breeding season of adult males was from early February to early October, having a peak of the breeding in April and July, and non-breeding season was from in the middle of October to late January. Young and old adult males of the breeding season had large testes with enlarged seminiferous tubules filling with numerous germ cells and expanded caudal epididymides with a vast number of spermatozoa, Young and old adult males of the non-breeding season had the small testes with the extremely slender seminiferous tubules filling with only spermatogonia and the reduced caudal epididymides without spermatozoa. Males weighing more than 3.9 g in the body weight and 0.013 g in the testis and epididymis weight reached sexual maturation in breeding season, and the females weighing more than 3.8 g in body weight of the breeding season were pregnant condition having 5?6 litters or had the Graafian follicles and the corpus lutea in the ovary.
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KEYWORD
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Age, Breeding, Crocidura suaveolens, Lesser white-toothed shrew, Tooth wear
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