Citing this Resource

How to Cite INFRAFRONTIER

  • Ali Khan A, Valera Vazquez G, Gustems M, Matteoni R, Song F, Gormanns P, Fessele S, Raess M, Hrabĕ de Angelis M; INFRAFRONTIER Consortium. 2023. INFRAFRONTIER: mouse model resources for modelling human diseases. Mammalian Genome 34 (3): 408-17. doi: 10.1007/s00335-023-10010-7.
  • Raess, Michael, Ana Ambrosio de Castro, Valérie Gailus-Durner, Sabine Fessele, Martin Hrabě de Angelis, and the INFRAFRONTIER Consortium. 2016. INFRAFRONTIER: A European Resource for Studying the Functional Basis of Human Disease. Mammalian Genome 27 (7): 445–50. PMID:27262858.
  • INFRAFRONTIER Consortium. 2015. INFRAFRONTIER–Providing Mutant Mouse Resources as Research Tools for the International Scientific Community. Nucleic Acids Research 43: D1171–D1175. PMID:25414328.

How to Cite EMMA

In the details pages for each EMMA strain you can find a ready-to-use sentence for citing the strain in your publications. Please use this or a similar sentence when citing a mutant strain obtained from EMMA.

To access the details page for the strain you used for your publication, please search for the EMMA strain here or in the search box in the upper right corner of this page. In the ‘Citation information’ section, you will see the text ‘copy citation’ in blue. If you click on it, the ready to use citation sentence will be copied to your clipboard and you can paste it in your manuscript text.

Is the ready-to-use sentence not available from the strain details page?

General case

Please use this or a similar sentence when citing a mutant strain obtained from EMMA:

“We thank [insert Provider] for providing the mutant mouse/rat line (Allele:[state Allele]), INFRAFRONTIER/EMMA (www.infrafrontier.eu, PMID: 25414328), and [insert Distributor] from which the mouse/rat line was distributed (RRID:IMSR_EM:xxxxx[state RRID]).”

EUCOMM/KOMP-CSD strains

Please use this or a similar sentence when citing an EUCOMM/KOMP-CSD mutant strain obtained from EMMA:

“We thank [insert Provider] for providing the mutant mouse line (Allele:[state Allele]), INFRAFRONTIER/EMMA (www.infrafrontier.eu, PMID: 25414328), and [insert Distributor] from which the mouse line was distributed (RRID:IMSR_EM:xxxxx[state RRID]). Associated primary phenotypic information may be found at www.mousephenotype.org.”

Please include in the publication the references below:

  • INFRAFRONTIER Consortium. (2015). INFRAFRONTIER–providing mutant mouse resources as research tools for the international scientific community. Nucleic Acids Res. 43, D1171–D1175.
  • Skarnes WC, Rosen B, West AP, Koutsourakis M, Bushell W, Iyer V, Mujica AO, Thomas M, Harrow J, Cox T, Jackson D, Severin J, Biggs P, Fu J, Nefedov M, de Jong PJ, Stewart AF, Bradley A. (2011). A conditional knockout resource for the genome-wide study of mouse gene function. Nature. 474, 337-342.

Additional information

Text in the [ ] space in the citation sentences from above should be filled in according to the strain being used. Instruction for each space is listed as below:

  • Provider: ‘Provider’ and ‘Provider affiliation’ as in the ‘Information from provider’ section on the EMMA strain details page
  • Allele: ‘Allele symbol’ as on the EMMA strain details page
  • Distributor: ‘Archiving centre’ as in the ‘Information from EMMA’ section on the EMMA strain details page
  • RRID: Please note that we currently only have assigned Research Resource Identifiers for some strains. They can be found on the strain details pages. Otherwise just use the EMMA ID in the citation sentences above.

To access the details page for the strain you used for your publication, please search for the EMMA strain here or in the search box in the upper right corner of this page.

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