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Animal sample from Arvicanthis niloticus

Identifiers
BioSample: SAMN12611849; Sample name: Nile rat tissue for G10K-VGP trio reference genome child; SRA: SRS18698935
Organism
Arvicanthis niloticus (Nile rat)
cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Opisthokonta; Metazoa; Eumetazoa; Bilateria; Deuterostomia; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Gnathostomata; Teleostomi; Euteleostomi; Sarcopterygii; Dipnotetrapodomorpha; Tetrapoda; Amniota; Mammalia; Theria; Eutheria; Boreoeutheria; Euarchontoglires; Glires; Rodentia; Myomorpha; Muroidea; Muridae; Murinae; Arvicanthis
Package
Model organism or animal; version 1.0
Attributes
isolatemArvNil1
age21 weeks
development stageadult
sexmale
tissueSpleen (genome), brain & testis (transcriptome)
biomaterial providerUniversity of California Santa Barbara; Morgridge Institute for Research
birth date11-Oct-2018
collected byHuishi Toh
collection date2019-03-06
geographic locationUSA: Santa Barbara
latitude and longitude34.41938 N 119.69905 W
specimen voucherT564M
storage conditionsFrozen
treatmentFrozen (dry ice)
PermitsUSDA Registration Number: 93-R-0438; CA Department of Fish & Wildlife: Restricted Species Permit # 2416
Description

Arvicanthis Niloticus, commonly known as the Nile rat or African grass rat, is a valuable model organism used in various areas of research including behavioral neuroscience, nutrition science, ophthalmology and evolutionary biology. Native to Northern Africa, this diurnal rodent has a diet primarily of leaves and stems, supplemented with insects, seeds, and fruits. However, when maintained in a laboratory environment with a rodent chow diet that has high caloric content relative to its native diet, both sexes rapidly develop diet-induced diabetes. By mimicking the disease etiology, the Nile rat provides an important animal model to study the causality of type 2 diabetes and is a suitable pre-clinical model. These samples were collected from a male and his parents in a laboratory colony of Huishi Toh and James Thomson at University of California, Santa Barbara, and used to generate chromosomal level reference assembly as part of the G10K-VGP project.

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PRJNA1008597
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PRJNA632612 Arvicanthis niloticus isolate:mArvNil1
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PRJNA608735 Arvicanthis niloticus isolate:mArvNil1
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PRJNA561936 Arvicanthis niloticus isolate:mArvNil1
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PRJNA561935 Arvicanthis niloticus isolate:mArvNil1
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Submission
G10K, Erich Jarvis; 2019-08-20
Accession:
SAMN12611849
ID:
12611849

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