Joan Staats, M.S. 



APPENDIX II 



International Rules of Nomenclature for Mice 



On December 27, 1925, the "Mouse Club" at its meeting in New Haven agreed 

 on certain gene symbols which "were recognized as orthodox and . . . voted into the 

 code." 427 This group is undoubtedly the ancestor of the present Committee on Stan- 

 dardized Genetic Nomenclature for Mice, which recently published the latest revisions 

 of the rules to designate inbred strains of mice. 220 



In the intervening 35 years, many groups have had many meetings and published 

 many papers in a continuing attempt to standardize usage of names and terms among 

 mouse geneticists and users of mice. The various International Genetics Congresses 

 have served as meeting places on several occasions. At the Seventh Congress in 

 Edinburgh in 1939, Professors F. A. E. Crew and L. C. Dunn and Dr. George D. Snell 

 were appointed as a Committee on Mouse Genetics Nomenclature "to deal with the 

 nomenclature of genes in mice, the reporting of genetic progress in mouse genetics, 

 and the preservation in a safe place of genes of value to mice geneticists." 867 Dr. 

 Hans Gruneberg replaced Professor Crew on the committee, because of war duties 

 of the latter, and the first comprehensive list of rules for nomenclature was published 

 in 1940 in the Journal of Heredity. 306 



Mouse Genetics News, no. 1 (1941) and 2 (1948), both carried reprintings, virtually 

 unchanged, of the 1940 rules. 764 



In 1949, after consultation with the genetics group at the Roscoe B. Jackson 

 Memorial Laboratory and correspondence with other geneticists, Dr. G. D. Snell 

 contributed to Mouse News Letter no. 2 a list of suggested rules of nomenclature for 



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