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Females gestate for slightly more than four months and anywhere between 1 and 11 pups may be born (with an average of 4-6).

Since an optimal study design for testing potential developmental neurotoxicants in rats, should include exposure during both the pre- and postnatal periods of brain development, we suggest that in the case of triclosan, direct dosing of pups may be the best way to obtain that goal.

These pups may be young, but they've already discovered their first love.

The absence of bacteria in the delivered pups of WT infected pregnant mice indicates that, Salmonella is not able to cross the trans-placental barrier when administered through oral route but neonate pups may be exposed to bacteria in the birth canal during delivery or after birth through feces or husk.

Survival of both adults and pups may be severely affected if these sites are detected.

Evidence from elsewhere in Africa (N'Djaména, Chad) indicates that emigration of pups may be an important factor in population dynamics (Mindekem personal communication).

Thus, CXCL14−/− pups might be weaker than heterozygous pups and may be out-competed by their littermates.

We propose four plausible evolutionary reasons why producing non-linear pup vocalizations may be advantageous for mice.

This result suggests that pup retrieval may be a quick and reliable measure for quickly identifying neglectful mothers.

We also recognize that pup syllables may be optimized to activate retrieval behavior by mothers, and so may undergo selection pressures and developmental trajectories that may be different than for adult syllables.

This raises the possibility that the precocious onset of exploratory as well as coordinated motor behaviours, observed here in enriched pups at P10, may be a result of accelerated maturation of motivational and sensory-motor circuits within the caudate/putamen.