Veterinary Guidelines

Jackson Laboratory "Genetic Background: understanding its importance in mouse-based biomedical research"

This resource manual outlines The Jackson Laboratory's Genetic Quality Control Program for preventing genetic contamination and its Genetic Stability Program for slowing genetic drift. Additionally, it discusses the importance of understanding substrains and genetic background in genetic research and encourages researchers to use proper nomenclature in all their research communications.

http://jaxmice.jax.org/literature/manuals/mouse_genetics_resource_manual.pdf