Gobello C
Laboratory of Reproductive Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, National University of La Plata - CONICET, La Plata, Argentina.
Reprod Domest Anim. 2014 Dec;49(6):e70-3. doi: 10.1111/rda.12414. Epub 2014 Sep 23.
Insufficient knowledge has been acquired regarding the prepubertal and pubertal periods of domestic canids. Until further information becomes available, a better standardization of the definitions, a careful and complete description of experimental variables and end points is necessary to diminish experimental bias in published trials. The aim of this report is therefore to discuss the definition of puberty and some of the most conflicting conditions influencing the pubertal transition (e.g. age and body weight and condition score among others) that, in turn, will be useful for the future design of reproductive studies on the domestic dog. Only trials that could be easily processed by a meta-analysis will contribute to an improvement of our general knowledge on the reproductive physiology of this particular species.
关于家犬青春期前和青春期阶段，我们掌握的知识还不足。在获得更多信息之前，需要更好地规范定义，仔细且完整地描述实验变量和终点，以减少已发表试验中的实验偏差。因此，本报告旨在讨论青春期的定义以及一些影响青春期过渡的最具争议的因素（如年龄、体重和体况评分等），这些内容反过来将有助于未来设计关于家犬的生殖研究。只有那些能够通过荟萃分析轻松处理的试验，才会有助于提高我们对这个特定物种生殖生理学的总体认识。
