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A SERIES of papers by Bruce and colleagues1–4 has described a pre-implantation block to pregnancy in non-inbred laboratory mice which is evoked by the presence of strange males of the same strain or of a different strain (‘alien’ males). This effect is olfactory-mediated. The phenomenon has also been reported in another species, non-inbred prairie deermice (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii)5.
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MARSDEN, H., BRONSON, F. Strange Male Block to Pregnancy: its Absence in Inbred Mouse Strains. Nature 207, 878 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207878a0
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