Seasonal evaluations of urinary androgen metabolites and semen quality in domestic long tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera) under natural photoperiod.

DOMINCHIN MF; BIANCONI S; PONZIO M.F.; FIOL DE CUNEO M; RUIZ R.D.; BUSSO J.M.

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Año: 2014 vol. 145 p. 99 - 99

p>tChinchilla spp. is a South American hystricomorph rodent genus currently consideredalmost extinct in the wild. The high quality of chinchilla fur motivated the harvesting ofchinchillas for the fur market. Reproductive biology advances come from studies on com-mercially exploited animals, especially Chinchilla lanigera. We studied seasonal variation ofurinary androgen metabolites, sperm concentration and sperm functional activity in malesof domestic Chinchilla lanigera