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1456637

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-1-7
pubmed:abstractText
Both sexual differentiation, which is a matter of individual development, and sexual dissimilation, which is a matter of individual differences, result from developmental processes that are open to input from the early maternal environment. There are reliable features in both the dam and the young that ensure that males receive more perineal stimulation from maternal licking than is necessary for survival and normal growth. This stimulation contributes toward the development of masculine sexual behavior and mechanisms in the central nervous system that control copulatory reflexes. Because of differences in signals that they produce, males receive more stimulation than females. This bias in early stimulation accounts for some of the dissimilarity between the sexes in nervous system morphology and behavior. The same processes that produce sex differences can also produce individual differences among males. These differences are likely to have significant functional consequences in rats, a species in which males have a high level of intrasexual reproductive competition. Future research will be directed toward testing this functional hypothesis and toward exploring the extent of stimulative effects on the development of the sexually dimorphic brain regions that function in sexual behavior.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0077-8923
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
662
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
160-77
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
The role of maternal stimulation in the development of sexual behavior and its neural basis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston 02125.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Review