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. 2014 Oct 23;64(1):91–100. doi: 10.1538/expanim.14-0061

Table 1. C57BL/6 substrains investigated in this study.

Substrain Source
C57BL/6N substrains C57BL/6NJ The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, MA, USA)
C57BL/6NCrSim Simonsen Laboratories, Inc. (Gilroy, CA, USA)
C57BL/6NTac Taconic Farm Inc. (New York, NY, USA)
C57BL/6NJcl CLEA Japan Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)
C57BL/6NSeac Kyudo Co. Ltd. (Tosu, Japan)
C57BL/6NCrlCrlj Charls River Laboratories Japan, Inc. (Yokohama, Japan)
C57BL/6NCrl Charls River Laboratories International, Inc. (Wilmington, MA, USA)
C57BL/6NHsd Harlan Laboratories, Inc. (Indianapolus, IN, USA)
C57BL/6NCrSlc Japan SLC, Inc. (Hamamatsu, Japan)
C57BL/6By The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, MA, USA)
C57BL/6ByJ The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, MA, USA)

C57BL/6J substrains C57BL/6J The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, MA, USA) via Charls River Laboratories Japan, Inc. (Yokohama, Japan)
C57BL/6JJcl CLEA Japan Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)
C57BL/6JJmsSlc Japan SLC, Inc. (Hamamatsu, Japan)
C57BL/6JEiJ The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, MA, USA)
C57BL/6JOlaHsd Harlan Laboratories, Inc. (Indianapolus, IN, USA)
C57BL/6JRccHsd Harlan Laboratories, Inc. (Indianapolus, IN, USA)
C57BL/6JBomTac Taconic Farm Inc. (New York, NY, USA)

Nomenclatured strain names of each C57BL/6 substrain were in accordance with JAX® NOTES [16].