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Inbr. F?+33 (1989). Mus musculus castaneous wild mice trapped in Thailand by J.T. Marshall, to Chapman, then Roderick and Eicher in 1971.Resistant to flavivirus, unlike most laboratory mice except C3H.RV (Sangster et al 1993). Low retinal ganglion cell number (3/24) (Williams et al, 1996)

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Sangster M. Y., Heliams D. B., MacKenzie J. S., and Shellam G. R. (1993) Genetic studies of flavivirus resistance in inbred strains derived from wild mice: evidence for a new resistance allele at the flavivirus resistance locus (Flv). J. Virol. 67, 340-347.

Williams R. W., Strom R. C., Rice D. S., and Goldowitz D. (1996) Genetic and environmental-control of variation in retinal ganglion-cell number in mice. Journal of Neuroscience 16, 7193-7205.

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