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.