Embryonal Survival to 6 Days in Mice Selected on Different Criteria for Litter Size

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 610-615

  De Ribeiro, E L A ^a,b   Van Engelen, M A J ^a,c   Nielsen, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embryos; Litter Size; Mice; Selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; LITTER SIZE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MOUSE; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LITTER SIZE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030097180     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1996.743610x     Document Type: Article

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