Article
C3.SW-Soaa heterozygous congenic taster mice.
Behavior genetics - 1 May 1995
Boughter J D, Whitney G
Abstract excerpt
Sensitivity to the bitter acetylated sugar sucrose octaacetate (SOA) is mediated by a single-locus system with three alleles in mice. Inbred strains are classified according to SOA phenotype as tasters, nontasters, or demitasters (intermediate sensitivity). A congenic quartet created from taster...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Food Preferences
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
- Sucrose
- Taste
