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sexual cycle

[′sek·shə·wəl ′sī·kəl]
(physiology)
A cycle of physiological and structural changes associated with sex; examples are the estrous cycle and the menstrual cycle.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Transfer was performed on the 7th day of the sexual cycle depending on availability of an active corpus luteum of the 2nd and 3rd quality.
Whether or not we assume there to be no photobiont adaption to lichenization, we need to ask questions about the sexual cycle, recombination and natural selection of photobionts both when lichenized and unlichenized.
(1986) studied the annual weight variations of testes during the sexual cycle, confirming in vivo experimental evidence previously obtained that associated testosterone control of the secretory activity.
Together with vitamin B6, zinc affects every part of the female sexual cycle. The two nutrients ensure that adequate levels of sex hormones are produced.
Men are on a much shorter twenty four hour sexual cycle than women's menstrual cycle, the main source of female energy loss.
* In 1935, Ojvind Winge discovered the yeast sexual cycle which led to improved yeast strains and to the tools for unravelling yeast genetics.
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