Chapter 1 Colony Establishment -- chapter 2 Determining the Genetic Basis of a New Trait -- chapter 3 Computerized Colony Management -- chapter 4 Medical Record Keeping for Project Analysis -- chapter 5 Necropsy Methods for Laboratory Mice: Biological Characterization of a New Mutation -- chapter 6 Photography of Laboratory Mice -- chapter 7 Comparative Pathology and Animal Model Development -- chapter 8 Kinetics and Morphometrics -- chapter 9 Ultrastructural Evaluation of Mouse Mutations -- chapter 10 Immunohistochemical and Immunofluorescence Methods -- chapter 11 Radiolabeled cRNA and In Situ Hybridization -- chapter 12 Use of Nonradiolabeled Probes for In Situ Hybridization -- chapter 13 Repositories of Mouse Mutations and Inbred, Congenic, and Recombinant Inbred Strains
Summary
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