Male fetuses negatively affect the vitality of the litter and the dam’s metabolic and physiological state in multifetal pregnant ewe

• Tamir Alon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Ruminant Science, Institute of Animal Sciences, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, Israel, Department of Animal Science, the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5916-2491

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• Alexander Rosov,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Ruminant Science, Institute of Animal Sciences, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, Israel

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• Lila Lifshitz,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Ruminant Science, Institute of Animal Sciences, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, Israel

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• Uzi Moallem

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: uzim@volcani.agri.gov.il

  Affiliation Department of Ruminant Science, Institute of Animal Sciences, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7958-0885

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