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The limits to artificial selection for body weight in the mouse: III. Selection from crosses between previously selected lines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

R. C. Roberts
R. C. Roberts
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A.R.C. Unit of Animal Genetics, Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, 9
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1. Four lines selected for large size were crossed to form a base population for further selection for high 6-week weight; three small lines were crossed similarly, and the crossbred population was selected for low 6-week weight.

2. In every case, a cross between two selected lines resulted in heterosis increasing body weight. This shows that all of the selected lines were differentiated with respect to genes affecting body weight.

3. Further selection for large size produced a stock whose mean weight was 25% higher than the largest of the original lines at its limit. But the response to selection for small size was slow, and after twenty-four generations of selection, the low weights of two of the original lines had not been recovered.

4. The evidence points to linkage of genes affecting body weight in the mouse. It is suggested that this is a particular feature of crosses between previously selected lines, rather than a general feature of mouse populations.

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Genetics Research , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 1967 , pp. 73 - 85
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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