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What (who) is murine - definition

SUBFAMILY OF RODENTS
Old World rats and mice; Old world rats and mice; Murine; Old World rat; Old World mouse; Murine rodent; Old World rats; Old World mice; Murines; Old World field mice

Murine         
·noun One of a tribe of rodents, of which the mouse is the type.
II. Murine ·adj Pertaining to a family of rodents (Muridae), of which the mouse is the type.
murine         
['mj??r??n, -r?n]
¦ adjective Zoology relating to mice or related rodents.
Origin
C17: from L. murinus, from mus, mur- 'mouse'.
Abelson murine leukemia virus         
Abelson leukemia virus; Abelson's virus; Abelson murine leukaemia virus; Ab-MLV
The Abelson murine leukemia virus (Ab-MLV or A-MuLV) is a retrovirus (Class VI) used to induce malignant transformation of murine lymphoid cells. As a retrovirus, it has a single-stranded, positive sense RNA genome which replicates via a DNA intermediate mediated by a reverse transcriptase.

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Murinae

The Old World rats and mice, part of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, comprise at least 519 species. Members of this subfamily are called murines. In terms of species richness, this subfamily is larger than all mammal families except the Cricetidae and Muridae, and is larger than all mammal orders except the bats and the remainder of the rodents.

Examples of use of murine
1. Tim Holy and Zhongsheng Guo at Washington University School of Medicine in Missouri discovered the murine melodies by accident.