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Selection for female traits of high fertility affects male reproductive performance and alters the testicular transcriptional profile

BACKGROUND: Many genes important for reproductive performance are shared by both sexes. However, fecundity indices are primarily based on female parameters such as litter size. We examined a fertility mouse line (FL2), which has a considerably increased number of offspring and a total litter weight...

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Autores principales: Michaelis, Marten, Sobczak, Alexander, Koczan, Dirk, Langhammer, Martina, Reinsch, Norbert, Schoen, Jennifer, Weitzel, Joachim M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5697431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29157197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-4288-z

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