Japanese wild mice: a rich resource for new disease models.

Abstract excerpt

Breeding of fancy mice has been a tradition in Japan. Recent progress in animal science has shed a new light on Japanese wild-derived mice as tools for discovery of new disease models because these mice, Mus musculus molossinus, are genetically far remote from the majority of available laboratory mice. After decades of effort, five inbred strains of mice have been established from pairs of wild mice trapped in...

Topics

• Animals
• Animals, Wild
• Apolipoproteins E
• Breeding
• Disease Models, Animal
• Female
• Japan
• Male
• Mice
• Mice, Inbred Strains
• Mutation