Congenital taillessness in AGUS inbred rats
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- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Laboratory Animals
- Vol. 18 (1) , 15-19
- https://doi.org/10.1258/002367784780864875
Abstract
From a survey of breeding records of the AGUS/Lac rat colony, 1% of animals weaned were found to lack tails. Post-mortem examination of 5 females showed major skeletal and genital abnormalities. Tailless rats were found more often than expected in 4th and 5th litters. A 'threshold' model of inheritance was postulated with an unknown environmental factor 'triggering' the condition.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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