RUDN Journal of Agronomy and Animal Industries (Jun 2009)
The comparative morphological characteristic of a penile bone of some representatives of group Rodents (Rodentia)
Abstract
In this study macroanatomical structures of os penis were examined on adult male guinea pigs, Norway rat and golden hamster. At a guinea pigs os penis is complete, its ends are a little bent dorsal, the head bears it three small tubercle. At a rat os penis consists of the basic part or a trunk and distal a shoot, connected among themselves by a cartilaginous tissue. At a hamster the bone is presented by four departments connected with each other connected among themselves by a cartilaginous tissue.