Fig. 1: The Silk Scroll of Three Rats.
From: Imperial paintings show earliest brown rat domestication
The scroll is a collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing (https://digicol.dpm.org.cn, Access Number 新 00146247). It consists of three paintings of rats (a–c) and one Chinese postscript in a horizontal arrangement. The postscript was written by Jianshen Zhu (the Emperor Xianzong of the Ming dynasty) in 1484 AD. We adjusted the three paintings and removed the postscript for concise. d an albino Lobund-Wistar rat in laboratory. This image photographed by Janet Stephens is free of copyright restrictions (https://visualsonline.cancer.gov/details.cfm?imageid=2568).
