NOMENCLATURE BN/Crl
ORIGIN
Silvers and Billingham began brother x sister matings with selection for haplotype in 1958 from a brown mutation in a stock of wild rats maintained by King and Aptekman in a pen-bred colony rats trapped from the wild in 1930 by King at the Wistar Institute. To Charles River Laboratories from Radiobiology Institute, Netherlands in 1976.
COAT COLOR Non-agouti brown (a, b, h’)
BREEDING LOCATION
Germany, UK, US
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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