MNRA

Inbr. F82+?.

Colour: Albino

Genet. a, c, h.

Origin: Substrain of MNR (see above). To Harrington in 1965 at F25 (Harrington 1981).

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Characteristics

Differs from MNR in a number of characteristics (Harrington 1971a,b, 1972, 1979a-1) and carries the a allele at the agouti locus. Fails to habituate to acoustic startle stimulus (Commissaris et al 1988).

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Commissaris R. L., Harrington G. M., Baginski T. J., and Altman H. J. (1988) MR/Har and MNRA/Har Maudsley rat strains: differences in acoustic startle habituation. Behav. Genet. 18, 663-669.

Harrington G. M. (1971a) Strain differences among rats initiating exploration of differing environments. Psychon. Sci. 23, 348-349.

Harrington G. M. (1981) The Har strains of rats: Origins and characteristics. Behav. Genet. 11, 445-467.

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