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THE impression gained from glancing through our mouse record cards suggested to us an unusual sex-ratio in some of our strains ; some strains appeared to be consistently producing more males than females or vice versa. As impressions are notoriously misleading, it was decided to carry out a brief analysis.
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Bartlett, D. G., Horne, N., Kettle, J. L., and Oliver, P. S., J. Anim. Tech. Assoc., 10, 116 (1959).
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COOK, M., VLČEK, A. Sex-Ratio in Mice. Nature 191, 89 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191089a0
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