Quantitative genetics of transgenic mice: Components of phenotypic variation in body weights and weight gains

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1753-1760

  Clutter, A C ^a   Pomp, D ^a,c   Murray, J D ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GROWTH REGULATION; HEMIZYGOSITY; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GROWTH HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHENOTYPE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SHEEP; VARIATION (GENETICS); WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; OVIS;

EID: 0029840167     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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