Technical Support

Colony Maintenance

• Health, Housing, and Husbandry
• Mouse Room Conditions

Colony Management

• General Husbandry Tips
• Strain Background and Genetic Drift
• Efficient Mouse Colony Management Webinar

Sizing Colonies/Colony Planning

• Colony Planning
• Guidelines for Sizing and Experimental Mouse Colonies Webinar
• Sizing Mouse Colonies Minicourse
• Mouse Identification

Troubleshooting Breeding

• Mice With Special Breeding Needs

Protocols

• Tamoxifen Induction
• Superovulation
• Streptozotocin (STZ) Induction of Diabetes

Cre Repository Protocols

• Intraperitoneal Injection of Tamoxifen for Inducible Cre-driver Lines
• B-Galactosidase Staining of Frozen Sections
• Whole Mount B-Galactosidase Staining

Mouse Embryo Related Protocols

• Recovery Thaw Protocol for Straws (scroll to bottom of page)
• Recovery Thaw Protocol for Vials (scroll to bottom of page)
• Cryopreservation Media Preparation (scroll to bottom of page)

Finding Mouse Models

• Strain Selection & Phenotyping
• Nomenclature for Mouse Strains FAQs
• Mouse Phenome Database
• Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI)
• IMSR
• MMRRC

Cre-Lox

• Going Beyond Cre-Lox
• Research Tools: Cre-Lox and More
• Cre-Lox Basics: Cre-Lox Technology in Mouse Modeling - Video
• Comparison of Cre Reporters
• Cre-Lox Breeding for Beginners, Part 1
• Cre-Lox Breeding for Beginners, Part 2
• Advanced Cre-Lox: Generating Reporters, Inducible Mice, and Disease Models

Breeding Schemes

• Designing & Optimizing Mouse Breeding Schemes
• Strategies for Creating Complex Breeding Schemes
• Breeding Strategies MiniCourse
• Common Laboratory Mouse Strains - A Beginner's Guide Minicourse
• Mutant and Transgenic Mouse Strains - A Beginner's Guide Minicourse
• Breeding Strategies Simple to Complex Mini-Course

Breeding Controls

• Choosing Controls
• Generation Definitions
• Basics of Mouse Nomenclature - Webinar
• Genetic Drift - Webinar

Genotyping

• Genotyping Help Can be Found at the new JAX Technical Help Center

Immunology and Cancer

• Immunodeficient Strains Chart
• Immunodeficient Mouse and Xenograft Host Comparisons
• Immunodeficient Mice for Cancer Studies: Which Host Strain Should I Use?
• Choosing an Immunodeficient Mouse Model

Metabolic

• 7 Tips Every DIO Mice User Should Know

Infectious Disease

• Inbred Mice: Genetic Tools for Modeling Infectious Diseases

Essentials Of Using Mice In Research

• BALB/cJ and BALB/cByJ: How Can I Choose? I'm So Confused!
• Three Ways a B6J Mouse Differs from B6N and Why it Should Matter to Your Research
• Pros and Cons of ZNFs, TALENs, and CRISPR/Cas
• How to Time Mouse Pregnancy
• The Difference Between "Germ Free" and "Specific-Pathogen-Free" Mice
• Why it Took 2 Years for a Harvard Research Lab to Get Back to Research (Genetic Drift article)