Genetics and caging type affect birth weight in captive pigtailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina)

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 207-213

  Ha, James C ^a   Ha, Renee Robinette ^a   Almasy, Laura ^b   Dyke, Bennett ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial inheritance; Quantitative genetics; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; PRIMATE; WEIGHT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MACACA; MALE; PEDIGREE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0036071944     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1075     Document Type: Article

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