Food resource allocation patterns in lactating females in a long-term selection experiment for litter size in mice.

A higher investment of resources in lactation and the processes that support this will result in a lower RFI as defined in this study. Whereas daily RFI in the non-reproductive period follows a clear trend [22], the course of RFI during lactation was rather capricious.

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Also phenotypic correlations between RFI after weaning and RFI during lactation are positive and highly significant, indicating that processes that operate during lactation are still influencing the resource balance after weaning.

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Sns-females had higher food intake than Ss-females (P < 0.05). After weaning there was a decreasing trend in food intake, but not in body weight. 3.3.2.

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