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Predator-prey interactions have recently received increased attention from evolutionary biologists and ecologists (for review, Lima and Dill, 1990; Lima, 1998). It has been documented that the risk of predation elicits different behavioral and physiological responses in prey species. A limited number of studies have focused on the influence that predators or their odors exert on reproduction of the potential prey. For example, decreased reproductive organ masses were observed in male and female bank voles placed in conditions simulating high predation (Ylönen, 1989; Heikkila et al., 1993). Exposure to cat urine caused a delay in sexual maturation of Mongolian gerbils (Vasilieva, 1995), and of golden (Vasilieva, 1997) and Campbelli’s hamsters (Vasilieva et al., 1999).
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Sokolskaja, N.V., Apfelbach, R., von Holst, D., Vasilieva, N.Y. (2001). Exposure of Juvenile Male Campbelli’s Hamsters and House Mice to Cat Urine Elicits Species-Specific Responses in Reproductive Development. In: Marchlewska-Koj, A., Lepri, J.J., Müller-Schwarze, D. (eds) Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 9. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0671-3_56
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