Zoology. Any of various long-tailed rodents of the genus Rattus. Selective breeding of the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) has produced the laboratory rat, an important model organism commonly used in biological, medical and pharmaceutical research. Well known strains are Wistar, Sprague-Dawley, and Fischer 344 rats.
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