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Temporal Order and Disorder in a Model That Regulates Ovulation Number

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Temporal Disorder in Human Oscillatory Systems

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The overwhelming majority of follicles that initiate growth in the mammalian ovary atrophy before reaching full ovulatory maturity. However, the number of follicles that emerge fully mature in each cycle, the ovulation number, is a controlled and characteristic number of the species or breed. For example, in many mammals removing an ovary does not cut the ovulation number in half. Instead, the number of follicles per cycle that reach full maturity doubles in the remaining ovary to compensate for the removal of its partner [1].

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Lacker, H.M. (1987). Temporal Order and Disorder in a Model That Regulates Ovulation Number. In: Temporal Disorder in Human Oscillatory Systems. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72637-8_29

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