Of Rats and Men Cell Volume 154, Issue 3, Pages 481-483 (August 2013) Christopher K. Patil, Steven A. McCarroll Cell Volume 154, Issue 3, Pages 481-483 (August 2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.07.022 Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 The Changing Fortunes of the Laboratory Rat The rat was for decades the most widely used model organism, but rat studies plateaued with the advent of the genome era. Meanwhile, studies in mice accelerated with the emergence of genome manipulation technologies. The data plotted are PubMed search results for papers in which the term “rat(s)” or “mouse (mice)” appears in any field. Cell 2013 154, 481-483DOI: (10.1016/j.cell.2013.07.022) Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions