5159 eng reportzib 0 2014-08-29 2014-08-29 -- This work deals with the reduction of a previously developed ODE model for the bovine estrous cycle. After applying a method for exploring the parameter space by Apri et al. (2012), we perform structure-based reduction steps and several system specific adaptations. Overall, the original model consisting of 15 ODEs and 60 parameters is reduced to a model of 10 odes and 38 parameters. The reduced model qualitatively reproduces the state trajectories of the original model. 1438-0064 urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-51594 Claudia Stötzel Claudia Stötzel Mochamad Apri Susanna Röblitz 14-33 Numerical Mathematics Computational Systems Biology Röblitz, Susanna BovSys https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-zib/files/5159/ZIB-Report_14-33.pdf