books.google.com - Mice have been domesticated by humans for centuries, even millennia, and have been used in research since the 1600's. However, development of the laboratory mouse as a research model accelerated with genetic experiments in the early 1900's. Today, the laboratory mouse is recognized as the pre-eminent...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Laboratory_Mouse.html?id=p53szBa_m8sC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Laboratory Mouse