Introduction of an adult male induces partially synchronous estrus in female laboratory mice that have been caged in groups. In the inbred YS/ChWf strain, this effect was observed only when the male was nonyellow (aa), while males heterozygous for the lethal yellow allele (A(y)a) failed to induce synchrony.

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