Table 1.
Outcomes of forced reproduction experiment.
Treatment | No. of dams | Total no. of pups |
Percent dead pups | Pup sex ratioa | Time to first delivery (days) | Dam weight at sacrifice (g) | |
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Dead | Live | ||||||
Control | 20 | 29 | 1,720 | 1.66 | 0.554 | 21.90 ± 2.61 | 71.24 ± 3.54 |
BPA | |||||||
25 ng | 19 | 16 | 1,273 | 1.24 | 0.463 | 22.68 ± 3.87 | 67.59 ± 2.38 |
250 ng | 18 | 10 | 1,588 | 0.63 | 0.530 | 21.22 ± 1.35 | 72.95 ± 3.05 |
25 μg | 20 | 26 | 1,165 | 2.18 | 0.506 | 21.05 ± 1.19 | 72.93 ± 2.48b |
DES | 20 | 11 | 1,501 | 0.73 | 0.488 | 21.73 ± 1.78 | 78.35 ± 2.51c |
Values for time to first delivery and dam weight at sacrifice are given as mean ± SE.
Ratio of males to females.
Two dams died at 8 months of age, before the end of the study; the cause of the deaths could not be established.
Three dams died (two dams at 3 months and one dam at 8 months of age) before the end of the study; the cause of the deaths could not be established.