Online tools for understanding rat physiology

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 431-439

  Dwinell, Melinda R ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Database; Disease models; Genome; Phenotype; Physiological genomics; Rat strains

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; INTERNET; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; INTERNET; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

RATTUS;

EID: 77955034237     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbp069     Document Type: Article

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