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Mastomys natalensis or Mastomys coucha. Correct species designation in animal experiments
T F Kruppa1, F Iglauer, E Ihnen
1Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin, Hamburg, FRG.
Tropical Medicine and Parasitology : Official Organ of Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft and of Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
|June 1, 1990
Abstract:
Haemoglobin electrophoresis and chromosome analysis indicate that the widely used multimammate rat (chamois coloured) as experimental animal belongs to the species Mastomys coucha (Smith, 1836) and not, as commonly assumed, to Mastomys natalensis (Smith, 1834).