Genetic Analysis of a Rat Model of Aerobic Capacity and Metabolic Fitness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Ren, Yu yu ^a   Overmyer, Katherine A ^a   Qi, Nathan R ^a   Treutelaar, Mary K ^a   Heckenkamp, Lori ^a   Kalahar, Molly ^a   Koch, Lauren G ^a   Britton, Steven L ^a   Burant, Charles F ^a   Li, Jun Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FITNESS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; MALE; MATING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RAT; ROTATIONAL MATING; RUNNING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CROSSES, GENETIC; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84885417906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077588     Document Type: Article

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