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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
卷 138, 期 2, 页码 148-157出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20911
关键词
milk composition and yield; parity; infant growth; maternal effects; life history
资金
- NSF [DDIG 0525025]
- NIH [RR019970, RR000169]
- California National Primate Research Center [DK77639]
- American Society of Primatologists awarded
Lactation represents the greatest postnatal energetic expenditure for mammalian mothers, and a mother's ability to sustain the costs of lactation is influenced by her physical condition. Mothers in good condition may produce infants who weigh more, grow faster, and are more likely to survive than the infants of mothers in poor condition. These effects may be partially mediated through the quantity and quality of milk that mothers produce during lactation. However, we know relatively little about the relationships between maternal condition, milk composition, milk yield, and infant outcomes. Here, we present the first systematic investigation of the magnitude, sources, and consequences of individual variation in milk for an Old World monkey. Rhesus macaques produce dilute milk typical of the primate order, but there was substantial variation among mothers in the composition and amount of milk they produced and thus in the milk energy available to infants. Relative milk yield value (MYV), the grams of milk obtained by mammary evacuation after 3.5-4 h of maternal-infant separation, increased with maternal parity and was positively associated with infant weight. Both milk gross energy (GE) and MYV increased during lactation as infants aged. There was, however, a trade-off; those mothers with greater increases in GE had smaller increases in MYV, and their infants grew more slowly. These results from a well-fed captive population demonstrate that differences between mothers can have important implications for milk synthesis and infant outcome. Am J Phys Anthropol 138:148-157, 2009. (C) 2008 Wiley-Liss. Inc.
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