Components of litter size in mice after 110 generations of selection

Reproduction

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 587-592

  Holt, Marte ^a   Vangen, O ^a   Farstad, W ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO MORTALITY; FEMALE; GENDER; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TESTIS WEIGHT;

EID: 2942607660     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00118     Document Type: Article

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