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. 2011 Feb 23:5:10.
doi: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00010. eCollection 2011.

All (C57BL/6) Mice are not Created Equal

Carly Kiselycznyk  1 , Andrew Holmes
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All (C57BL/6) Mice are not Created Equal

Carly Kiselycznyk et al. Front Neurosci. .
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Figure 1
While ostensibly the same, there is growing evidence of significant phenotypic differences between substrains of the C57BL/6 inbred mouse.
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Comment on

  • A commentary on Behavioral profiles of three C57BL/6 substrains. by Matsuo, N., Takao, K., Nakanishi, K., Yamasaki, N., Tanda, K., and Miyakawa, T. (2010). Front. Behav. Neurosci. 4:29. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00029

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