Table 1.

List of inbred strains of mice used in this study and their characteristics

Strain symbol	Genealogical categorya	25 mM NaCl preference (%), strain meanb	75 mM NaCl preference (%), strain meanb	75 mM NaCl preference (%), strain meanc	Amiloride sensitivityd	NaCl taste threshold (mM), strain mean ± SEMe
129P3/J	Castle's	67f	70f	60	Noh i	30 ± 9
A/J	Castle's	53	62	56	Yesj	30 ± 9
BALB/cByJ	Castle's	68	73	69	Noi k m	7 ± 2
C3H/HeJ	Castle's	59	46	21	Yesk n	13 ± 5
C57BL/6ByJ	C57-related	61g	62g	60g	Yesh i j k o	7 ± 2
C57BL/6J	C57-related	61	62	60	Yesh i j k	5 ± 2
CBA/J	Castle's	48	43	28	Yesl	18 ± 6
CE/J	Other	59	70	70		3 ± 1
DBA/2J	Castle's	50	56	51	Nok p	9 ± 6
FVB/NJ	Swiss	65	79	75		13 ± 6
NZB/BlNJ	Castle's	58	63	63	Yesl	5 ± 1
PWK/PhJ	Wild-derived	57	68			16 ± 3
SJL/J	Swiss	61	67	70		6 ± 3

If different substrains were used in our current study and in a cited study, this is explained in the footnotes. Only 25 and 75 mM NaCl preference scores are shown to illustrate strain variation; preference scores for other concentrations are accessible on the Monell Mouse Taste Phenotyping Project web site (Tordoff and Bachmanov) and the Mouse Phenome Database (http://phenome.jax.org/). SEM, standard error of the mean.

^aBased on a genealogy chart of inbred strains (Beck et al. 2000).

^bThe preference scores from Tordoff et al. (2007).

^cThe preference scores from Bachmanov, Beauchamp, et al. (2002).

^dAbility of amiloride to suppress responses to NaCl in the chorda tympani gustatory nerve.

^eThis study.

^fThe data for a related substrain, 129S1/SvImJ.

^gThe data for a related substrain, C57BL/6J.

^hThe data from Gannon and Contreras (1995).

ⁱThe data from Ninomiya et al. (1996).

^jThe data from (Cherukuri and McCaughey, unpublished data).

^kThe data from Ninomiya et al. (1989).

^lThe data from Ninomiya et al. (1998).

^mThe data for a related substrain, BALB/cCrSlc (Ninomiya et al. 1989; Ninomiya et al. 1996).

ⁿThe data for a related substrain, C3H/HeSlc (Ninomiya et al. 1989).

^oThe data for related substrains, C57BL/6CrSlc (Ninomiya et al. 1989; Ninomiya et al. 1996), or C57BL/6J (Gannon and Contreras 1995; Cherukuri and McCaughey, unpublished data).

^pThe data for a related substrain, DBA/2CrSlc (Ninomiya et al. 1989).