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Vivalada Posted 19 years ago
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The recent study suggested that polygynous mammals fed on very high fat (VHF) diet were likely to reproduce more sons than daughters. A study of eight week old NIH Swiss mice was conducted to testify the effects of VHF diet on the sex ratio shifting. Experimental mice were divided and fed either ad libitum (VHF), fat restricted (VHF-R) or standard chow 5015 (controlled) diet. These groups of mice were bred at 15 week, 26 week and 35 week old. The experiment one’s goal was to identify the effects of mothers’ body weights (BW), litter size, and postnatal mortality in offspring. Experiment two was to test how male breeder’s VHF diet affects the sex ratio. Experiment three was to study the effects of VHF diet on the ratio of X and Y sperm in male breeders. The test results revealed that mother’s BW and litter size had no influence on the sex ratio. Furthermore, offspring’s mortality rate was not influenced by mothers’ diet. VHF diet favored male offspring more than VHF-R diet by probability less than 0.01. X and Y sperm counts showed that VHF diet was irrelevant in skewing of sex ratio. Serum hormones (corticosterone, IGF-1 and leptin) levels had no significant result in this phenomenon of shifting in sex ratio. Researchers concluded that it was high calorie intake affected sex ratio in offspring, not the high fat in diet. Additionally, shifting in sex ratio was primarily caused by mothers’ VHF diet.
  

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If you post anonymously, it must be approved first, but now that you are registered, your posts will appear right away. Anyway, welcome to the forums, Vivalada The recent study suggested that polygynous mammals fed a very high fat (VHF) diet were likely to re produce more sons than daughters. A study of eight-week-old NIH Swiss mice was conducted to testify - this is not the right word, but I don't now what is.

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  • A study of eight-week-old NIH Swiss mice was conducted to testify - this is not the right word, but I don't now what is.
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If you post anonymously, it must be approved first, but now that you are registered, your posts will appear right away.

Anyway, welcome to the forums, Vivalada

The recent study suggested that polygynous mammals fed a very high fat (VHF) diet were likely to reproduce more sons than daughters. A study of eight-week-old NIH Swiss mice was conducted to testify -
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