Genetic dissection of testicular weight in the mouse with the BXD recombinant inbred strains

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 503-505

  Zídek, Václav ^a   Musilová, Alena ^a   Pintíř, Jan ^a   Šimáková, Miroslava ^a   Pravenec, Michal ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 13; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; MARKER GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; ORGAN SIZE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS;

EID: 0031927196     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003359900808     Document Type: Article

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