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Mice Strains with Different Coat Colors

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The mutated colors in Japanese fancy mice, JF1, gave them a Giant Panda look. The C57BL/6 (B6) strain has black coat color, nonagouti. Japanese wild strain MSM has agouti coat color.

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Tsuyushi Koide, the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) in Japan

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