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ATTENTION has been directed to skeletal variations within inbred mice strains by Grüneberg1 and by McLaren and Michie2. The latter workers have surveyed most of the available substrains of C 3 H mice and have found that they fall into two general categories having either five or six lumbar vertebræ. In the course of studies on the response of liver β-glucuronidase to hormone injections, it has now been found that there are two quite distinct levels of this enzyme in certain C 3 H substrains, and that this difference represents a genetical variation in the C 3 H strain.
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HAMER, D. Biochemical Variations in Inbred Mice. Nature 175, 1132–1133 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/1751132a0
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