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Science 3 June 1966:
Vol. 152. no. 3727, pp. 1398 - 1400
DOI: 10.1126/science.152.3727.1398
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Maternal Effect in Dental Traits of the House Mouse

Paul Tenczar 1 and Robert S. Bader 1

1 Department of Zoology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801

The size of the second and third mandibular molar teeth of inbred mice is altered if the mice are fostered on a different strain. The dental change is opposite in direction to that of body weight. The prenatal and postnatal components of variance are correlated with the develipment histories of the two tooth types.

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