RT Journal
A1 Goios, Ana
A1 Pereira, Luísa
A1 Bogue, Molly
A1 Macaulay, Vincent
A1 Amorim, António
T1 mtDNA phylogeny and evolution of laboratory mouse strains
JF Genome Research 
JO Genome Research 
YR 2007 
FD March 01 
VO 17 
IS 3 
SP 293 
OP 298 
DO 10.1101/gr.5941007 
UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/17/3/293.abstract 
AB Inbred mouse strains have been maintained for more than 100 years, and they are thought to be a mixture of four different mouse subspecies. Although genealogies have been established, female inbred mouse phylogenies remain unexplored. By a phylogenetic analysis of newly generated complete mitochondrial DNA sequence data in 16 strains, we show here that all common inbred strains descend from the same Mus musculus domesticus female wild ancestor, and suggest that they present a different mitochondrial evolutionary process than their wild relatives with a faster accumulation of replacement substitutions. Our data complement forthcoming results on resequencing of a group of priority strains, and they follow recent efforts of the Mouse Phenome Project to collect and make publicly available information on various strains.