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NIAID rabbit lines
Submit responseThe statement "Largely closed colonies of rabbit lines have been developed, bred, and characterized at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institutes of Health. These lines maintain polymorphisms for a variety of genes involved in immunity, including genetic variants (allotypes) of the VH, CH, and CL regions of antibody molecules." is no longer correct. When I retired to Emerita status in June 2008, NIAID chose not to continue to maintain these lines. What is still correct is that, " A relational database covering more than 40 years of breeding records is maintained for these colonies, which also contain the descendants of rabbits with mutations in key immunological loci." Some rabbits were sent elsewhere and are bring bred. I can be contacted at rmage@niaid.nih.gov for further information about the rabbits and the database.
