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Science 29 January 1971:
Vol. 171. no. 3969, pp. 402 - 404
DOI: 10.1126/science.171.3969.402
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Artibeus jamaicensis: Delayed Embryonic Development in a Neotropical Bat

Theodore H. Fleming 1

1 Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis 63121

In Panama the phyllostomid bat Artibeus jamaicensis is seasonally polyestrous, and young are born in March or April and July or August. Blastocysts conceived after the second birth implant in the uterus but are dormant from September to mid-November, when normal development again resumes.


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