Environmental and genetic influences on body mass and resting metabolic rates (RMR) in a natural population of weasel Mustela nivalis

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1283-1293

  Zub, Karol ^a   Piertney, Stuart ^b   Szafrańska, Paulina A ^a   Konarzewski, Marek ^a  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'animal model'; body mass; heritability; Mustela nivalis; resting metabolic rate

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; MALE; MUSTELIDAE; PEDIGREE; POLAND; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSTELIDAE; PEDIGREE; POLAND; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUSTELA NIVALIS; MUSTELINAE;

EID: 84857632125     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05436.x     Document Type: Article

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