Food resource allocation patterns in lactating females in a long-term selection experiment for litter size in mice

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 83-104

  Rauw, Wendy M ^a   Knap, Pieter W ^b   Verstegen, Martinus W A ^c   Luiting, Petronella ^b  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b PIC Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lactation; Litter size; Mice; Residual food intake; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; LACTATION; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVIVAL; TIME; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEWBORN;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EATING; FEMALE; LACTATION; LITTER SIZE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0036010952     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2001005     Document Type: Article

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