SF

Inbr (Dn) 42+32. Agouti +. Origin: wild mice trapped in coal mine and sib-mated by M.Barnawell (Berkeley CA) as 'Corte Madera' to Cambridge 1959. Maint. by Dn.

SF-5613

Inbr: 45. Genet: a.

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Characteristics

Selected for late sexual maturity of males. Mean age of first fertile mating formerly 58.8 days, now 52 days; mean body weight at 100 days, 28.9 g.

SF-5621

Inbr: 36. Genet: A, b.

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Characteristics

Selected for late sexual maturity in males. Mean age of first fertile mating. 58.2 days; mean weight body at 100 days, 32.3 g.

SF/Cam

Inb : 42 + 8. Genet: +. Origin: Wild mice trapped in a coal mine and sib-mated to F10 by M. Barnawell (Berkeley, Calif.) as `Corte Madera', to Cambridge 1959.

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Characteristics

Adrenal X zone relatively and absolutely large in females; very poorly developed zona glomerulosa (Wallace, 1970). High serum complement activity (c.f. 8/26) (Ong et al 1989)

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Ong G. L. and Mattes M. J. (1989) Mouse strains with typical mammalian levels of complement activity. J. Immunol. Methods 125, 147-158.

Wallace M. E. (1970) An unprecedented number of mutants in a colony of wild mice. Environmental Pollution 1, 175-184.

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