Vitalstar has 20 years’ experience in mouse & rat husbandry. According to the needs of customers, we can formulate appropriate simple and complex breeding schemes, and provide professional services such as colony startup, natural expansion, rapid colony expansion and live rodents holding (maintaining transgenic strains,strains with multiple mutations or Cre-lox strains, etc.).
1. Colony Startup
Colony Startup generally includes two aspects:①genotype identification (PCR or sequencing identification) and phenotypic analysis;②strain pairs selection and propagation. Vitalstar may provide full or partial (customer option) services for colony establishment.
2. Rapid Colony Expansion
Our Breeding Services makes managing your mouse & rat colonies easy and quickly. Rapid expand colonies using IVF.We make sure you get the right number of rodent models when you need them.
Custom number of mice or rats* | Time of rapid colony expansion | Time of natural expansion | |
1 | 30 | 6W | 24W |
2 | 50 | 6~8W | 24W |
3 | 100 | 8~10W | 32W |
4 | 150 | 8~12W | 40W |
5 | 200 | 8~12W | 46W |
* Data from B6 background mice
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