By Michael Le Page The spiny rat Amami ASATO KUROIWA For any mammal, the loss of the Y chromosome should mean the loss of the males and the disappearance of the species. So how the spiny rat Amami copes without a Y chromosome has puzzled biologists for decades. Now, Asato Kuroiwa from Hokkaido University in …
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INo wonder rodents top the list of model organisms. They are small and easy to maintain, yet share enough in common with humans to provide valuable insight into a myriad of life science fields, including physiology, neuroscience, and medicine. But the most popular rodent models, house mice (mouse muscle) and Norway rats (norwegian rat) – …
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Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International License. Researchers have assembled the first Nile rat reference genome. The reference genome is a kind of genetic model of this species which can be used for laboratory and clinical studies. The hope, according to researcher Huishi Toh of the …
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Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International License. Researchers have assembled the first Nile rat reference genome. The reference genome is a kind of genetic model of this species which can be used for laboratory and clinical studies. The hope, according to researcher Huishi Toh of the …
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