Voorbeelden van fatness

• Quantitative trait loci affecting body weight and fatness from a mouse line selected for extreme high growth.

• Quantitative trait loci affecting fatness in the chicken.

• When the master reaches its fatness limit, we split it in half, making two independent master arrays.

• Combined analyses of data from quantitative trait loci mapping studies : chromosome 4 effects on porcine growth and fatness.

• Effects of thyroid hormone deficiency on selected mice then is whether the selected lines will still differ in growth or in fatness without these hormones.

• Recent work has shed new light on the control of fatness.

• The reduced belly width seems mainly to reflect a reduced fatness and a hypertrophied skeletal musculature, leading to a change in the abdominal shape.

• We refer to the results of this line only for the comparative aspect of the side effects of this selection on fatness.

• Effects of thyroid hormone deficiency on mice selected for increased and decreased body weight and fatness.

• These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that growing female sheep must reach a certain minimum level of body fatness before the onset of puberty.

• Selection for body weight is mostly accompanied by increasing fatness (for references, see above).

• In this laboratory we have lines of mice which have been selected divergently from the same base population for body weight and for fatness for more than 50 generations.

• Chr 2 in general seems to play a major role in murine growth and fatness.

• Muscularity and fatness of infants and young children born small- or large-for-gestational-age.

• A significant effect of the lit gene on fatness and a higher increase of fatness in the high than in the low body weight line were found.