AXB-

Inbr circa F29-59 (1992). Set of 48 recombinant inbred strains developed by Nesbitt from A/J x C57BL/6 and C57BL/6 x A/J. (Nesbitt and Skamene 1984), now reduced to 31 living and 8 extinct strains (Marshall et al 1992). Strain distribution pattern of some markers given by Mu et al (1992). Maint. by J.

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Marshall J. D., Mu J.-L., Cheah Y.-C., Nesbitt M. N., Frankel W. N., and Paigen B. (1992) The AXB and BXA set of recombinant inbred mouse strains. Mamm. Genome 3, 669-680.

Mu J. L., Cheah Y. C., and Paigen B. (1992) Strain distribution pattern of 25 simple sequence length polymorphisms in the AXB and BXA recombinant inbred strains. Mamm. Genome 3, 705-708.

Nesbitt M. N. and Skamene E. (1984) Recombinant inbred mouse strains derived from A/J and C57BL/6J: a tool for the study of genetic mechanisms in host resistance to infection and malignancy. J. Leukocyte Biol. 36, 357-364.

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INBRED STRAINS OF MICE
Updated 9 Apr. 1998
Michael FW Festing
MRC Toxicology Unit, Hodgkin Building,
University of Leicester, UK