Article
The hairless-obese mouse.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Stansfield W D
Abstract excerpt
Viable mice homozygous for two recessive autosomal genes, hairless (hr) and obese (ob) were produced with an average life span of 538 +/- 34.1 days. On the average, hairless-obese mice weighed about 73 percent as much as obese mice. Since obese mice consumed approximately 73 percent as much oxygen per gram body weight per hour as hairless-obese mice at about 24 degree C, the weight averages appear to be closely...
Topics
- Animals
- Body Weight
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Longevity
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Hairless
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Obese
- Oxygen Consumption
- Phenotype