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correlation between rat weight and age

Marc Roy marcroy at midway.uchicago.edu
Wed May 15 09:45:26 EST 1996


In article <31988F87.EDE at uni-duesseldorf.de>, "Sven E. Haul"
<Sven.Haul at uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> can anyone guide me to a paper stating a correlation between the weight 
> of rats (I use wistar) and the age in days?
> I suspect my animal provider of making birthdays up, and would like to 
> check.
> Many thanks in advance,
> Sven

It is important to realize that there are not only strain differences, but
there can be differences between breeders, and even some differences
between facilities owned by the same breeder!

-- 
Marc Roy
Redfield Visiting Professor
Univ.of Chicago
      and
Associate Professor of Biology
Beloit College
Beloit, WI



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