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Vitamin D status predicts reproductive fitness in a wild sheep population.
Scientific reports - 13 Jan 2016
Handel Ian, Watt Kathryn A, Pilkington Jill G, Pemberton Josephine M, Macrae Alastair, Scott Philip, McNeilly Tom N, Berry Jacqueline L, Clements Dylan N, Nussey Daniel H, Mellanby Richard J
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with the development of many human diseases, and with poor reproductive performance in laboratory rodents. We currently have no idea how natural selection directly acts on variation in vitamin D metabolism due to a total lack of studies in wild animals. Here, we measured serum 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations in female Soay sheep that were part of a long-term...
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