A Diallel of the Mouse Collaborative Cross Founders Reveals Strong Strain-Specific Maternal Effects on Litter Size

Reproductive success in the eight founder strains of the Collaborative Cross (CC) was measured using a diallel-mating scheme. Over a 48-month period we generated 4,448 litters, and provided 24,782 weaned pups for use in 16 different published experiments. We identified factors that affect the averag...

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Published in:	G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Main Authors:	John R. Shorter, Paul L. Maurizio, Timothy A. Bell, Ginger D. Shaw, Darla R. Miller, Terry J. Gooch, Jason S. Spence, Leonard McMillan, William Valdar, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford University Press 2019-05-01
Subjects:	F1 cross additive heritability fertility BayesDiallel zero-truncated Poisson variance projection Multiparent Advanced Generation Inter-Cross (MAGIC) multiparental populations MPP
Online Access:	http://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.118.200847