Article
A simulation model including ovulation rate, potential embryonic viability, and uterine capacity to explain litter size in mice: II. Responses to alternative criteria of selection.
Journal of animal science - 1 Mar 1997
Ribeiro E L, Nielsen M K, Leymaster K A, Bennett G L
Abstract excerpt
Direct selection for litter size was compared with selection for ovulation rate, ova success, or uterine capacity and for indexes of ovulation rate with ova success or uterine capacity. Selection was simulated for 10 generations in a mouse population based on a model integrating ovulation rate, p...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Embryonic and Fetal Development
- Female
- Genotype
- Litter Size
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Models, Biological
- Ovariectomy
- Ovulation
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
- Selection, Genetic
- Uterus