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Christophe Pélabon Jean-Michel Gaillard Anne Loison Christine Portier 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1995,37(5):311-319
We examined data on sex-specific differences in neonatal weight, litter size and adult female body weight in 32 populations of polygynous ungulates of 18 different species to test for the existence of a trade-off between sex-biased maternal care and the total amount of maternal expenditure. This corresponds to an extension of the hypothesis of Byers and Moodie (1990) that sex-biased maternal care is limited by a high level of maternal expenditure. We did not find any relationship between sex-biased care and two measures of total maternal expenditure. We highlighted high intraspecific variability in sex-biased care and very low intraspecific variability in total maternal expenditure. Even when this between-population variability in sex-biased care was accounted for, no relationship between sex-biased maternal care and maternal expenditure was detected. Apart from difficulties in finding suitable measures for both variables, two other reasons may account for the lack of a relationship between sex-biased maternal care and total maternal expenditure. Firstly, male offspring seem to be more affected than female offspring by harsh environmental conditions. This may lead to the variation observed in the extent of sex-specific differences in birth weight within a single species. If we assume that for a given maternal expenditure reproductive costs incurred by mothers are highest during harsh conditions, this could indicate the existence of a trade-off between sex-biased maternal care and maternal expenditure at the intra-specific level, thereby supporting the Byers and Moodie hypothesis. Secondly, polygyny is only a poor predictor of sex-biased care and factors such as compensatory growth or extended periods of growth may be expected to modify predictions for different species. Thus, environmental conditions and relative effects of maternal care on male and female lifetime reproductive success are better predictors of sex-biased care than total maternal expenditure.Communicated by P.M. Kappeler 相似文献
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C. A. Dell'Agnola V. Tomaselli E. Teruzzi B. Tadini A. G. Coran Surgeon-in-Chief 《黑龙江环境通报》1993,13(7):629-632
The impact of prenatal sonographic diagnosis of oesophageal and gastrointestinal obstructions has been analysed over a 10-year period. Three groups of patients were evaluated. The first group consisted of 46 newborns with abnormal prenatal sonogratns, 41 of which were confirmed to have intestinal obstruction postnatally. The second group consisted of 17 neonates with normal prenatal sonograms who had intestinal obstruction postnatally. The third group included 56 newborns who did not undergo a prenatal sonogram but who had intestinal obstruction confirmed at surgery. Polyhydramnios without the appearance of a stomach on ultrasound was diagnostic of pure oesophageal atresia. Polyhydramnios with intestinal dilation was diagnostic of intestinal obstruction. Although surgery was performed earlier in the infants diagnosed prenatally with ultrasound, mortality was no less than in the group that did not undergo a prenatal sonogram, probably because of the high incidence of associated anomalies. 相似文献
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Claude Stoll MD Marie-Christine Ehret-Mentre Alain Treisser Christine Tranchant 《黑龙江环境通报》1991,11(1):17-22
We studied two children born to a myasthenic mother. The first child, a female, had multiple flexion contractures. She died 1 h after birth. In the second pregnancy, 3 years later, ultra-sonographic examination at 20 weeks showed decreased fetal movements and multiple flexion contractures. The pregnancy was interrupted. Eight other cases of congenital rnyasthenia with arthrogryposis are known; four of them are siblings. The recurrence risk may be as high as 100 per cent. Our second case demonstrates that prenatal diagnosis is possible early enough to allow termination of pregnancy. 相似文献
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G. Corney D. B. Whitehouse D. A. Hopkinson C. H. Rodeck K. Nicolaides M. Norman A. P. Mowat 《黑龙江环境通报》1987,7(2):101-108
Fetal blood sampling for the diagnosis of alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency using protein isoelectric focusing was carried out in the period 1980–1985. The results of 25 cases from 18 mothers are reported. All had a previous history of a PiZ child affected by liver disease. The method was found to be technically satisfactory and the fetal results were subsequently confirmed in all 18 cases where follow-up was possible. The fetus was found to be PiZ in nine cases and all these pregnancies were terminated. Of the remaining pregnancies three cases aborted or were delivered prematurely and 13 proceeded to term without complications. 相似文献
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E. Verspyck L. Mandelbrot MD M. Dommergues C. Huon F. Woimant C. Baumann B. Vernet-Der Garabedian 《黑龙江环境通报》1993,13(6):539-542
Transient myasthenia gravis was observed in an infant whose mother had no signs of neuro-muscular disease. The case presented with severe polyhydramnios at 31 weeks. Sonographic and invasive work-up showed only an absence of fetal swallowing. At birth, the infant had severe muscle weakness and respiratory distress. He had high titres of anti-acetylcholine receptor (anti-AChR) antibodies of maternal origin. Anti-AChR antibodies were also found in stored samples of fetal serum and amniotic fluid. To our knowledge, this is the first case of neonatal myasthenia gravis for which neither past nor present evidence of disease could be obtained in the mother. Anti-AChR antibody testing should be considered in cases of unexplained polyhydramnios. 相似文献
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Variations in the birth sex ratio and neonatal mortality in a natural herd of horses 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Anne-Marie Monard Patrick Duncan Hervé Fritz Claudia Feh 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1997,41(4):243-249
Variations in birth sex ratios and sex differences in juvenile mortality occur in a number of mammalian species, and in many
cases have been linked to resource availability. Most of these biases in offspring sex ratios concern polygynous species with
pronounced sexual dimorphism, and where females only are philopatric. Data on species with unusual life-history strategies,
such as slight sexual dimorphism or dispersal by both sexes, are of particular interest. In this study of a natural herd of
horses (Equus caballus) which experienced an eruptive cycle, and therefore a period of nutritional stress, male offspring had higher neonatal mortality
rates in nutritionally poor years than in good ones, whereas “year quality” had no effect on the mortality of female offspring;
year quality could therefore be used by mares as predictor of sex-specific offspring survival. We show that the environmental
conditions that predicted lower survival of males were negatively related to their production: the birth sex ratio the following
year was female-biased; and mares were less likely to produce a son when they had produced a son the preceding year. There
was no significant effect of mother's parity, age or rank, or the timing of conception or birth on offspring sex ratios. The
mechanism leading to biases in the birth sex ratio could have been the loss of male embryos by mares that did not foal. As
there was no evidence for selective abortion of male foetuses in females that did foal the next year, it is not necessary
to invoke maternal adjustment, though this remains a possibility. Finally, there was a suggestion that male offspring were
more costly to raise than females, since mothers that reared a son in poor years tended to experience an increase in the interbirth
interval between their two subsequent offspring.
Received: 28 December 1996 / Accepted after revision: 27 July 1997 相似文献
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A 20-year-old woman with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) was ultrasonographically appraised at intervals during her pregnancy. Unequivocal evidence for a diagnosis of BWS was obtained in the fetus and this was confirmed postnatally. Early ultrasound diagnosis enabled appropriate genetic counselling to be given; neonatal complications, such as hypoglycaemic episodes, were prevented. 相似文献
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A case of a prenatally diagnosed fetal ovarian cyst is presented. The pregnancy was complicated only by polyhydramnios, and some degree of fetal bowel obstruction could be recognized on sonogram. The newborn was delivered vaginally in the 39th week of pregnancy, and the cyst was removed by laparotomy on the day of the delivery. The etiology of this rare fetal condition is unknown. 相似文献
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