Article
Heritability of treadmill running endurance in rats.
The American journal of physiology - 1 Nov 1998
Koch L G, Meredith T A, Fraker T D, Metting P J, Britton S L
Abstract excerpt
Treadmill running was evaluated as a phenotype for selective breeding for high- and low-endurance performance from a starting population of 18 male and 24 female outbred Sprague-Dawley rats. Each rat was exercised to exhaustion once per day for 5 consecutive days. The treadmill was set at a const...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Female
- Male
- Phenotype
- Physical Conditioning, Animal
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley