Table 1. Reproductive efficiency of wild type and SP hyh mice.
Male | Female | Productive matingsa | Litter size | Number of litters | Relative fecundityb |
wt | wt | 90.9% (13/15) | 7.5 | 5.1 | 34.76 |
het | het | 89.7% (113/126) | 7.3 | 5.4 | 35.35 |
hyh | het | 0% 0/24 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
hyh | hyh | 1.4% (2/148)c | 5.5 | 4.5 | 0.33 |
wt: wild type (Napa(+/+)); het: heterozygous (Napa(hyh/+)); hyh: mutant homozygous (Napa(hyh/hyh)) with the slow progressive phenotype.
Matings are considered “productive” if at least one offspring was born.
“Relative fecundity” is obtained as: (productive mating/100)×(litter size)×(number of litters); the value obtained is a measure of the overall fecundity according to the Handbook of Genetically Standardized JAX Mice [33].
The same hyh male had two productive matings.