Reproductive failure due to the entrapment of oocytes in luteinized follicles of the little bulldog bat (Noctilio albiventris)

J. J. Rasweiler

doi:10.1530/jrf.0.0710095

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Reproductive failure due to the entrapment of oocytes in luteinized follicles of the little bulldog bat (Noctilio albiventris)

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J. J. Rasweiler IV

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1530/jrf.0.0710095

Volume/Issue:: Volume 71: Issue 1

Page Range:: 95–101

Article Type:: Research Article

Online Publication Date:: May 1984

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Summary. The reproductive tracts of 112 female little bulldog bats collected around the onset of a breeding season in the Cauca Valley of Colombia were examined histologically. Of the 88 females with luteinizing/luteinized follicles or new CL, 72 carried tubal ova or uterine blastocysts and 16 were non-pregnant. In 14 of the latter follicle rupture had apparently failed to occur, and the oocyte or a collapsed zona pellucida was found within a luteinizing or luteinized follicle. These structures appeared to be functional because most of the affected bats demonstrated preferential stimulation of the ipsilateral oviduct and/or uterine horn. Two of these animals also had a second, older luteinized follicle which contained the remnants of an oocyte. None of these 14 bats exhibited the uterine modifications thought to be associated with a previous pregnancy or had prominent mammary glands. Such reproductive features were, in contrast, frequently demonstrated by other females in the population. These observations suggest that the luteinization of unruptured follicles may have occurred in prepubertal members of the population and reflect immaturity of the hypothalamopituitary—ovarian axis in these individuals.

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