10.18453/rosdok_id00004541 Calanni Pileri, Michela Michela Calanni Pileri http://d-nb.info/gnd/132209845X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3148-4012 Universität Rostock 2023 500 Natural sciences 570 Life science 610 Medical sciences Medicine 2023 en https://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00004541 urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-rosdok_id00004541-9 Dummerstorf high fertility mouse lines are selected for increased fertility. After ~200 generations they doubled their ovulation rate and litter size. This worldwide unique lines can give some insides into the desired highly-informative phenotype of high-fertility, in which those peculiarities of enhanced reproductive performance coexist with characteristics that the literature mostly correlates with a lowering of fertility. The deep analysis of FLs can be a very informative way to get the methods they use to avoid their "bad" characteristics to have an impact in their higher-fertility traits.