First evidence of a menstruating rodent: the spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus)
Nadia Bellofiore, Stacey J Ellery, Jared Mamrot, David W Walker, Peter Temple-Smith, Hayley Dickinson
This paper reports the first observation of menstruation in a rodent, the spiny mouse, providing a non-primate model for studying menstrual and pregnancy-related diseases.
bioRxiv · Jun 3, 2016Physiology