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Nuclear gene variation in wild brown rats.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 1 Dec 2012
Ness Rob W, Zhang Yao-Hua, Cong Lin, Wang Yu, Zhang Jian-Xu, Keightley Peter D
Abstract excerpt
Although the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) is widely used as a model mammal throughout biological sciences, little is known about genetic variation in wild rat populations or the relationship of commonly used inbred strains to their wild relatives. We sampled wild brown rats from the species' presumed ancestral range in NW China and from a derived population in the UK and estimated nucleotide diversity and...
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