SPRD

Inbr. F34 (Han 1989).

Colour: Albino.

Genet. a, B, c, h, P, R.

Origin: From outbred Han:SPRD (Sprague-Dawley) rats. Dominant pelage mutation designated curly-3 (Cu3) occured in 1975 at the Gesellschaft fur Strahlenforschung, Dortmund, Germany. Mutant animals returned to Hannover where inbreeding begun in 1976 (Greenhouse et al 1990). Good reproductive performance.

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Greenhouse D. D., Festing M. F. W., Hasan S., and Cohen A. L. (1990) Catalogue of inbred strains of rats, in Genetic monitoring of inbred strains of rats (Hedrich H. J., ed), pp. 410-480. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart, New York. (Gustav Fischer; Stuttgart, New York; N)

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