inbred rat strains selected for various behavioral traits

... Relationships of inbred mouse strains Relationships of inbred mouse strains (a) A phylogenetic tree based on the fraction of allelic differences across 12,473 loci between inbred mouse strains (b) ... expression signals for the replicate samples for each gene and calculated a Pearson correlation coefficient for the signal intensities between all possible strain combinations for each brain region ... across different strains are well known We investigated whether inbred strains that are closely related have gene expression profiles that on average resemble each other more than strains that are...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 17:22

... preferred route for the duration of the study Personal Exposure to Air Pollution for Various Modes of Transport The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, 2012, Volume Exercise Factors and Dose For those ... median 1-minute concentrations ranged from 0.0 ppm for the runner on Route to 3.8 ppm for the motorcyclist on Route for each of the modes and routes The highest 1-minute concentration was 176 ppm ... options for different modes Only a few studies consider the increased ventilation rate associated with active modes One study [22] showed that the minute ventilation rate (product of the breathing rate...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... time that data is collected and used for online behavioral advertising One option for providing this second form of notice is for an entity to attach a uniform link/icon and wording to each advertisement ... as it recognizes that data used for Online Behavioral Advertising purposes may also be used for other purposes, and that the appropriate duration for keeping data for these other purposes such ... collected for Online Behavioral Advertising purposes as described in II.B B Web Site Notice of Third Party Online Behavioral Advertising When data is collected from or used on a Web site for Online Behavioral...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... reason for existence except as a catalyst for learning and discovery - - GEORGE BOX ) [' This quotation serves as the guiding rationale for this book and, I hope, provides an outlook for teaching ... program Study Guide for Statistics and Data Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Instructors (or students) can order a study guide to accompany Statistics and Data Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences ... test How to collect the right kinds of information for analysis How to perform statistical calculations in a straightforward, step-by-step manner How to accurately interpret and present statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 04:21

... opportunities for the development of strategies for reversing or circumventing drug resistance [4, 11] In this manuscript, we generate novel drug resistant ovarian cancer cell lines independently selected ... 50°C, for AmpErase UNG incubation; 95°C, 10 for AmpliTaq Gold activation; and 40 cycles of melting (95°C, 15 sec) and annealing/extension (60°C for min) PCR reactions for each template were performed ... clustering Expression changes for individual genes were considered significant if they met criteria: z-ratio above 1.4 (or below -1.4 for down-regulated genes); false detection rate

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Revenue Programs Selected for Fiscal Year 1998 Statewide Audit Public Release Date: January 22, 1999 No 99-4 Background Information The Department of Revenue is responsible for managing the state's ... verify the integrity of employer submitted withholding tax information to wage detail information This report is intended for the information of the Legislative Audit Commission and the management ... ready For the areas audited, the Department of Revenue's financial activity for fiscal year 1998 was fairly presented in the State of Minnesota's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... performance for various channel configurations, as long as the channel does not show a strong multiple-cluster behavior Next for the uncoded BER performance, the Fan-Fan and Fan-Pen configurations ... τc for various configurations Link budget and scenario analysis SYSTEM DESIGN AND BER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION In this section, we analyze the link budget for designing a 60 GHz system and performs ... investigate the shape of power delay profiles for various channel configurations, we take the average over all the measured profiles for each configuration Here, each individual measured profile is...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... Table compares the dose to selected organs for the various adjuvant breast radiotherapy protocols There are very large variations of the total body dose between techniques - For external beam radiotherapy ... those rates are small and the risk remains acceptable Since most radiotherapy techniques except the HDR brachytherapy are yielding similar or lower amount of Table Dose to various organs for various ... wedge/breast IMRT for missing tissue compensation [9,18], partial breast 3D-conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT) delivering 38.5 Gy in 10 treatments [17], multi-catheter High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... Indeed, significant differences were observed in these lines, for example, for liver lipogenesis (Saadoun and Leclercq, 1987) or for implicated in the control of lipid metabolism like insulin ... kept per line from FO to F7 They were crossed with or dams Successive generations were weighed at wk of age At each generation sons per dam were slaughtered and their abdominal fat was weighed ... were kept to produce the following generation We took care not to cross full-sibs or half-sibs The selection programme was conducted during successive generations and then stopped At that time...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... should be included in selection programs In many cases, for example, selection for low responsiveness should be more important than selection for an optimal level of the trait A major problem in ... lines were obtained after one generation of selection, and these differences did hardly change in subsequent generations It was concluded that (1) responsiveness for egg laying indeed has an independent ... genotype-environment components of variability I - Inbred lines Heredity, 21, 387-397 OUGHEY B H., JiNKs J.L., 1978 Joint selection for both extremes of mean performance and of sensitivity to macroenvironmental...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... origin of the various forms is now established and work is underway to study the various genetic and non-genetic factors that disrupt the reproductive process at various times and in various ways ... Japanese quail (Coturnix) was established and reproduced for generations from more than 100 pairs of parents, selected at random, in each generation From this base, sublines were commenced One was ... result was EDDY IEGEL reported by R & S (1977) in lines of chickens divergently selected for body weight for 17 generations In other karyological observations of chicken embryos it was found that...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... consensus on the rationale for the choice of the various management strategies Out of the six case management strategies, this workshop produced a coherent picture of the cases for at least four ... were therefore interested in learning more about the rationale for different management strategies, in particular the use of maintenance care As a consequence, we designed a new study for the group ... on three chairs and each group had a flip-over board in front of them For each group, a chairman was selected for the duration of the workshop by The other participants were divided into two...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... investigated, and for each one ten replications were run For both data size scenarios the same genetic structure was considered but with different sizes For S20 in the first generation, 40 males ... swine or rabbit For both data structures 21,500 records were generated according to the described model and assigned to the total number of animals in the population For generating records only ... the same used for fitting the effect of instantaneous THI on milk production [2] However it is relatively straight forward to consider more complex functions, for example, those used for stud- Page...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... QTL for SCS on OAR17 and for YSCS on OAR14 and 22 The detailed information of the locations, effect sizes and confidence intervals for the 24 QTL is shown in Table for QTL-MLE Allelic effects for ... for the single traits of the yields until day 100 Results of the QTL analysis using QTL-MLE for the single traits of the yields until day 100 Drawn are the genome-wide graphs for the single traits ... QTL-MLE for the single milk content traits Drawn are the genome-wide graphs for the single milk contents traits for protein, fat and lactose and the useful yield; chromosomes are separated by...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

...  aS (2) stands for the covariance between genotypic values for the parents of the individual, and can be developed further by expanding to the previous generation Under this formulation, Lo ... Chi-squared for the scalars and Inverted Wishart for the matrices Then ∏ { × where K = Diag{ki}, with ki ≥ × 10 for i = 1, ,p Secondly, multivariate normal distributions will also be specified for the ... quadratic forms while sampling the covariance matrices These steps involve arithmetic operations on the entries of large matrices: the mixed model coefficient matrix and the partial numerator...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... association for the first cohort but a nonlinear association for the second cohort To allow for this nonlinearity, a quadratic term was included for the second cohort only The full model allowing for ... addition to the QTL for body weight on chromosome 16 and for dressing percentage on chromosome 14 For muscle traits, eight QTL were detected on seven chromosomes, for fat traits ten QTL on seven ... seven chromosomes and for bone traits only two QTL There were no QTL which solely contributed to traits related to a single tissue i.e QTL just for muscle, Page of 14 fat or bone For chromosomes 1,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... LW-related traits have a low to moderate heritability Nevertheless, genetic studies of LW-related traits in growing and finishing pigs are limited A significant number of QTL for performance traits ... identified for bone mineral-related traits, one for BMD and one for BMC A QTL for BMD was found on SSC3 at 71 cM Only one QTL was detected for BMC, at cM on SSC2 Both QTL for BMD and BMC reached a 5% ... information from more than one QTL must be incorporated in selection procedures Our results reveal novel QTL regions on SSC2 for BMC, on SSC3 for HH, on SSC6 and SSC18 for RLS, and on SSC14 for...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... Foulley and Im, 1993; formula 21), so that formula [13] reduces to: = which is the very well known formula to predict expected genetic change after one generation of selection for a normal trait ... response for threshold dichotomous traits The purpose of this note is to generalize the analytical approach to count traits described by a Poisson distribution which may arise eg in reproductive performance ... using formulae of Ducrocq and Colleau (1986) Results in table I show an asymmetric pattern of response such that, as expected, is larger than for a fraction selected Q < 1/2, and the opposite for...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... combinations of traits in different lactations Unfortunately, analysing the data using a general MV model (for example with traits in lactations, ie for traits) was computationally not feasible Therefore, ... matrices for p traits, Thompson and Hill (1990) proposed performing q p(p+1)/2 univariate analyses, where the q &dquo ;traits& dquo; are obtained from linear transformations of the p traits, and ... (co)variances estimated for lactation and will be biased if culling was based on performance in the first lactation For all BV analyses the fixed effect structure was different for both traits For most analyses...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... selection for lifetime protein yield (H For all breeding goals, the expected ) gain in accuracy for sire selection when adding progeny means on multiple traits is expected to be smaller than for mass ... lactations 1-3) to that of independent new traits, since in that case separate analyses would contain all the information and would (therefore) account for selection One approach is to investigate ... (obvious) choice for the transformation matrix h V is a canonical transformation on M F and P This transformation was l , , 1 calculated (see Hayes and Hill, 1980 ; and lMeycr, 1985, for computations)...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20