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As I understand it, many diseases that wild mice almost all carry have been eliminated in lab mice, using some fairly crazy measures. They also have very little
by shubb 9y ago
As I understand it, many diseases that wild mice almost all carry have been eliminated in lab mice, using some fairly crazy measures. They also have very little genetic variation due to the way they have been bred.
I think there is a very interesting scifi novel in reading about how that stuff was achieved and what human society would be like after it was applied...
- Morizero 9y ago> They also have very little genetic variation due to the way they have been bred. Specifically, the mechanism is inbreeding. Each generation has less and less genetic diversity, until individuals are essentially clones.