JAX® Mice Literature

JAX® NOTES Issue 505, Spring 2007

New and Updated Resource Manuals Available

A Breeding Strategies Resource Manual is now available from JAX® Mice and Services. This new manual describes breeding strategies and techniques for maintaining colonies of laboratory mice. We have developed and used these techniques for over 75 years. They are safe, reliable, economical, efficient, and ensure that the mouse strains produced are genetically well defined.

JAX® Mice and Services has also published a second edition of its Neurobiology Resource Manual. The manual showcases over 30 of the nearly 800 JAX® Mice models suitable for neurobiology research (including some new Alzheimer's models), describes relevant JAX® Services and Web sites, lists Jackson Laboratory courses, and briefly summarizes research of Jackson Laboratory scientists relevant to neurobiology research.

These two and other Jackson Laboratory Resource Manuals are available free of charge by filling out the literature request form.

New JAX® Mice Catalog and Price List

JAX® Mice are the standard for genetic and biomedical research. They are the most published and well characterized mouse models in the world, backed by a wealth of genetic, phenotypic, and informatics resources. The new JAX® Mice catalog briefly describes this collection, including more than 400 new strains. It will be available in June. To request a copy, please call 1-800-422-MICE (6423), or visit fill out our form.

Standing Orders (orders scheduled to ship at regular intervals over a period of weeks or months) will be charged new prices after June 1, 2007. All other (single) orders placed before June 1 will be charged the price in effect when the order was placed. Contractual arrangements will follow the terms of the contracts. Please note that the JAX® Mice Database always has the most current information and prices for all JAX® Mice strains.

JAX® Mice Database Has New Search Functionality

You can now search the JAX® Mice Database by strain phenotype or by relationship to human disease. For details, please see the announcement.