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Selective Breeding Experiments Witht Exercise Physiology PDF
Selective Breeding Experiments Witht Exercise Physiology PDF
EXPERIMENTS WITH
RODENTS IN EXERCISE
PHYSIOLOGY
PE MAJOR 4
INTRODUCTION
In the 1920s and 1930s, researchers began selectively breeding rats and mice for high levels of
physical activity, such as wheel running..
BACKGROUND
BRIEF HISTORY OF SEELECTIVE BREEDING EXPERIMENTS WITH RODENTS
in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a renewed interest in selective breeding experiments with
rodents in exercise physiology.
One of the earliest and most influential studies in this area was conducted by Dr. Theodore
Garland Jr. and colleagues at the University of California, Riverside.