• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Potency in Male Rhesus Monkeys: Effects of Continuously Receptive Females
  • Contributor: Michael, Richard P.; Zumpe, Doris
  • imprint: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1978
  • Published in: Science
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.417398
  • ISSN: 0036-8075; 1095-9203
  • Keywords: Multidisciplinary
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  • Description: <jats:p>Ejaculations decreased and mount latencies increased when intact males were paired regularly over a 3.5-year period (3180 tests) with ovariectomized females made constantly receptive by daily injections of estradiol. The deterioration in potency was abruptly and completely reversed by substituting a group of new but similarly treated females for the original ones.</jats:p>