The purpose of this User's Guide is to assist you in using all of the features of the electronic version of Lee Silver's Mouse Genetics.
There are several ways to navigate through this book:
The Table of Contents lists Chapter and subchapter headings. Click on any link in the Table of Contents to go to that section of the text.
The Subject Index list topics alphabetically. Click on any link to go to that Table, Figure, or section of the text.
See Chapter 1.1 for an example of the abbreviated Table of Contents and the Previous and Next links.
Internal links in the body of the text may refer to other sections of the book, including references, footnotes and terms defined in the Glossary.
References: Citations within the body of the text are linked to the appropriate reference in the References section. Many of the references are also in the body of literature curated by Mouse Genome Informatics. These will have a link to the citation in MGI below the citation in the References section. Clicking the link to MGI will take you to the references detail page at MGI. For example, Silver et al (1983) is also curated at MGI. Clicking the link to MGI lets you search for Genes, Markers and Phenotypes, Marker Mapping Information, or Molecular Probes and Segments in MGI from this reference. This page also links to the citation in PubMed. Other references are not curated at MGI, but are curated in PubMed. For example, Silver et al. (1987) is such a citation. Clicking the link to PubMed take you to the page containing the Abstract and several useful search features: click Related Articles to see references that may be more up to date, or Books to see chapters from reference works related to the subject of the reference.
Genes: All mouse genes mentioned in the text are linked to MGI pages containing information on those genes, including current nomenclature. The link may be to a marker detail page, such as that for the gene referred to in the text as the albino (c) locus. The link may also be to a summary page that contains links to individual genes, such as that for the H (histocompatibility) genes.
Tables: Clicking a reference to a Table within the text will cause that Table to appear in a new browser window (see, for example, Table 3.2). All Tables are listed on the Tables page.
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Links to other MGI documents: There are links to other MGI documents added as notes to the text, as in this example: See also the Revised Nomenclature for Strain 129 Mice at MGI.
Links to other Internet resources: There are links to other sources of information or research materials on the web. See for example, the links to suppliers of mice in Appendix A.
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