A third component causing random variability beside environment and genotype. A reason for the limited success of a 30 year long effort to standardize laboratory animals?

doi:10.1258/002367790780890347

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A third component causing random variability beside environment and genotype. A reason for the limited success of a 30 year long effort to standardize laboratory animals?

Laboratory animals - 1 Jan 1990

Gärtner K

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This paper is a review of experiments, performed in our laboratory during the past 20 years, designed to analyse the significance of different components of random variability in quantitative traits in laboratory rats and mice. Reduction of genetic variability by using inbred strains and reductio...

Topics

Animal Husbandry
Animals
Animals, Laboratory
Body Weight
Environment
Genetic Variation
Genotype
Mice
Normal Distribution
Rats
Research Design

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