Description
Experts from the Jackson Laboratory and around the world provide practical advice on everything from how to establish a colony to where to go for specific mutations. TOC:Mouse colony establishment.- Determining the genetic basic of a new trait.- Computerized colony record keeping. Medical record keeping for project analysis.- Necropsy methods for laboratory mice.- Biological characterization of a new mutation.- Photography of mutant laboratory mice.- Comparative pathology and animal model development.- Kinetics and morphometrics.- Ultrastructural evaluation of mouse mutations.- Immunohistochemical and immunofluoresence methods.- Radiolabeled CRNA and in situ hybridization.- In repositories of mouse mutations and inbred, congenic and recombitant inbred strain.
