Morphogenetic studies of the rabbit. XXXIX. Ponderal correlation coefficients of the bones form two races of rabbits
✍ Scribed by Latimer, Homer B. ;Sawin, Paul B.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1967
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 305 KB
- Volume
- 159
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-276X
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✦ Synopsis
Thirty-five male an 30 female rabbits of large race 111 derived from the New Zealand White race and the same numbers of small race X, from Castle's small race, were used in this study.
Earlier studies on these two races have shown that the males are more variable in body weight and body length; and that the individual bones are likewise more variable in weight and in length in the males.
In this study, body weight and the weight of the entire skeleton were correlated on the basis of the null hypothesis with the individual bone weights and the individual bone weights were intcrcorrelated. The correlations are, for the most part, higher in the males than in the females of both races. The males of small race X have higher correlations than the males of large race 111. Thus, although the entire body size varies more in the males. the weights of the bones are, €or the most part, more closely correlated with body weight and total skeletal weight and with the other bones in the males than in the females. Some of the lowest correlations are with bones having large proportions of cancellous bone.