Genetic differences influencing behavioral temperature regulation in small mammals. I. Nesting by Mus musculus.

Genetic differences influencing behavioral temperature regulation in small mammals. II. Genotype-environment interactions.

The importance o f genotype by temperature interactions contributing to individual differences in nesting behavior has been demonstrated using two inbred strains o f Mus musculus. Exposure to low ambient temperature increased amounts o f cotton used by both the high-nesting (BALB/cJ) and low-nesting (C57BL/6J) strains. The larger total nesting scores o f BALB/cJ mice compared to those o f C57BL...

Leptospirosis in small mammals of Iran: II: Isolation of Leptospira grippotyphosa, from Mus musculus

Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Temperature Regulation in MUS MUSCULUS. I. Partitioning of Variance.

Heritabilities (from parent-offspring regression) and intraclass correlations of full sibs for a variety of traits were estimated from 225 litters of a heterogeneous stock (HS/Ibg) of laboratory mice. Initial variance partitioning suggested different adaptive functions for physiological, morphological and behavioral adjustments with respect to their thermoregulatory significance. Metabolic heat...

"Interspecific Chimeras in Mammals: Successful Production of Live Chimeras Between Mus musculus and Mus caroli" (1980), by Janet Rossant and William I. Frels

In 1980 Janet Rossant [5] and William I. Frels [6] published their paper, ?Interspecific Chimeras in Mammals: Successful Production of Live Chimeras Between Mus musculus and Mus caroli ,? in Science. Their experiment involved the first successful creation of interspecific mammalian chimeras [7]. Mammalian chimeras [8] are valuable for studying early embryonic development. However, in earlier st...

Interspecific chimeras in mammals: successful production of live chimeras between Mus musculus and Mus caroli.

Live chimeras between two species of mouse, Mus musculus and Mus caroli, were produced by blastocyst injection. These chimeras were entirely similar to M. musculus in equilibrium with M. musculus chimeras in their somatic tissue organization. This is the first report of completely normal development of interspecific chimeras in mammals.