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Footpad bristles: a convenient metric character in mice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Michael F. W. Festing
Michael F. W. Festing
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Laboratory Animals Centre, Woodmansterne Road, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 4EF

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A new metric character in mice, ‘footpad bristle number’ is described. The character is easily measured under a stereo-microscope, is very highly inherited, and is independent of age, sex and the environment common to littermates. Such a character might prove useful in a number of quantitative genetic studies in mice.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , December 1974 , pp. 315 - 321
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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