Long-tailed Chinchilla
Chinchilla lanigera
Welcome to the Chinchilla Portal within RGD. This portal contains links to data related to the long-tailed chinchilla, Chinchilla lanigera, and to tools that chinchilla researchers can use to find and analyze that data. Please feel free to contact us with suggestions for additional data or tools that would help advance your research.
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“The long-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera) is used as a model for understanding the physiology, development and function of the auditory system. The chinchilla is used in several research areas, including otitis media, upper respiratory tract infections, hearing, psychoacoustics and ototoxicity. The chinchilla has been used for auditory or acoustics research because of the anatomical and physiological similarities between its inner ear and that of human (1–4). Its middle ear and Eustachian tube structures are also similar to that of humans and unlike other rodent models it is not susceptible to innate middle ear infections, making it an ideal model organism for otitis media (OM) studies (5–7). The presence of a large cephalid bulla, from which sufficient quantities of middle ear fluids can be withdrawn for microbiological and immunological assessment, is also an advantage. Most interestingly, the chinchilla has a permanently semipatulous Eustachian tube, which makes this tubal organ highly similar to the ‘floppy’ Eustachian tube of childhood (5). The chinchilla is recognized as an ideal model of otitis media and its use has produced critical information regarding the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of pneumococcal OM, the immune response to S. pneumoniae-induced OM, the efficacy of antimicrobial drugs that target S. pneumoniae, and the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide vaccine antigens (8).”
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Chinchilla Data
Ontomate: Concept-Based Literature SearchOntomate: pre-filtered for Chinchilla literature
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Chinchilla Genes at RGD
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RGD Disease AnnotationsChinchilla Otitis Media Annotations
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RGD’s Pathway AnnotationsRGD’s Pathway Diagrams
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Gene Ontology Annotations
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RGD’s Chinchilla Download Site
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Tools for Chinchilla Data Analysis
Chinchilla JBrowse
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OLGA:
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MOET:
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GA Tool:
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GOLF:
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Chinchilla PhenoMiner
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Genome and Gene Resources
RGD’s Chinchilla Genome Information
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Chinchilla Taxonomy PageChinchilla Species BrowserChinchilla Genome PageChiLan1.0 Assembly Page
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Ensembl’s Chinchilla
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