Embryo Transfer

• Homozygous colony maintenance for the purposes of maintaining a contingency colony as well as both small and large-scale production breeding with the goal of regularly providing a supply of experimental animals for our clients. No ear tagging or notching or tail biopsy is required.
• Heterozygous colony maintenance for the purposes of maintaining a contingency colony as well as both small and large-scale production breeding with the goal of regularly providing a supply of experimental animals for our clients.
• Backcrossing of transgenic knockouts onto species-specific recipient strains and/or onto specific inbred strains. Ear tagging or notching and tail biopsy are included.
• Accelerated backcrossing utilizing microsatellite markers to reduce the number of generations needed to move transgenes or knockout constructs onto different backgrounds.
• Intercrossing transgenic lines to combine multiple constructs in a single model.

• Comprehensive evaluation of clinical signs
• Animal identification: Animals are individually identified according to a system selected by the customer. A number of identification options are available including ear notches, ear clips and ear tags and subcutaneous transponder implants
• Health monitoring of the colony by sentinel program
• Sample collection and analysis : Tail biopsies and other tissue samples needed for transgenic analysis can be collected and analyzed (by PCR, southern blot or microsatellite) to determine an animal’s genotype either in our genetic testing laboratories or specimens can be packed and shipped to clients’ laboratories.