Reproducibility: use mouse biobanks or lose them

Nature. 2015 Jun 11;522(7555):151-3. doi: 10.1038/522151a.

Authors

Kent Lloyd¹, Craig Franklin², Cat Lutz³, Terry Magnuson⁴

Affiliations

¹ Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Center (MMRRC) at the University of California, Davis, California, USA.
² MMRRC at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
³ MMRRC at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA.
⁴ MMRRC at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

PMID: 26062496
PMCID: PMC4636083
DOI: 10.1038/522151a

Abstract

Now that genetic engineering of mice is so easy, centralized repositories are essential, argue Kent Lloyd and colleagues.

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Specimen Banks / standards*
Biological Specimen Banks / statistics & numerical data*
DNA Mutational Analysis
Disease Models, Animal
Genetic Testing
Genome / genetics
Humans
Mice* / classification
Mice* / genetics
Mice* / microbiology
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Microbiota / genetics
Mutation / genetics
Quality Control
Reproducibility of Results

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