INBREEDING AND OUTBREEDING IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY OF LABORATORY RAT RATTUS-NORVEGICUS

Authors
BORISOV VI VALETSKY AV DMITRIEVA IL KRUSHINSKAYA NL ZAKHAROV VM
Citation
Vi. Borisov et al., INBREEDING AND OUTBREEDING IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY OF LABORATORY RAT RATTUS-NORVEGICUS, Acta Theriologica, 1997, pp. 67-72
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
Acta Theriologica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00017051
Year of publication
1997
Supplement
4
Pages
67 - 72
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-7051(1997):<67:IAOIOD>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Developmental stability analysis was conducted for three strains of la boratory rat Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout, 1769 and their hybrids. Dev elopmental stability was estimated by fluctuating asymmetry of 20 char acters of skull morphology. A decrease was revealed in fluctuating asy mmetry for the inbred strains and for the hybrids of genetically diffe rent strains. There were not any differences in fluctuating asymmetry between the home-and heterozygotes for the separate locus. This suppor t the hypothesis of the dependence of developmental stability on gener al genetic coadaptation.