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Brown Norway Rat: This model was used in the Rat Genome Sequencing Project.

Brown Norway Rat

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ORIGIN
Silvers and Billingham began brother x sister matings with selection for histocompatibility in 1958 from a brown mutation in a stock of wild rats maintained by King and Aptekman in a pen-bred colony of rats trapped from the wild in 1930 by King at the Wistar Institute. To Charles River from Radiobiology Institute, Netherlands in 1976.

STRAIN CODE 091

COAT COLOR Non-agouti brown

RESEARCH APPLICATION
genetic mapping, respiratory inflammation, immunological dysfunction, aging, transplantation research

MHC HAPLOTYPE RT1n

ORDERING INFORMATION
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