OBESITY, other than that occurring in yellow mice, is relatively rare in mice. The obese yellow animals attain weights up to 75 or 80 grams but the average weight is around 60 grams and then there is a decrease in weight as age increases.j In the summer of 1949 some very plump young mice were found in the V stock.j Others occurred shortly after that among offspring of these V stock animals that had been outcrossed to the fuzzy sock.
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