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Substrains matter in phenotyping of C57BL/6 mice.
Experimental animals - 13 May 2021
Mekada Kazuyuki, Yoshiki Atsushi
Abstract excerpt
The inbred mouse strain C57BL/6 has been widely used as a background strain for spontaneous and induced mutations. Developed in the 1930s, the C57BL/6 strain diverged into two major groups in the 1950s, namely, C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N, and more than 20 substrains have been established from them worldwide. We previously reported genetic differences among C57BL/6 substrains in 2009 and 2015. Since then, dozens of...
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