Swiss Webster Germfree

Model Description

• Extensively used for decades as an all-purpose stock for research and drug safety testing
• Often used as recipient mother in transgenic labs due to its superior nurturing ability
• Swiss Webster females are also ideal pseudopregnant recipients for embryo transfers of black and agouti mouse lines

Origin: Taconic received the Swiss Webster Germfree outbred model from the Rockefeller Institue through Rockland Farms Inc in 1940. The mice have been maintained as a closed colony since 1951. The mice were derived by caesarean from randomly chosen breeders and reintroduced into a Barrier Nucleus Expansion Colony in 1965-1969. The mice were derived by caesarian in 1983 from randomly chosen breeders from all Taconic's barrier units.

Color: Albino

Coat Color Loci: Tyr^c

Genetics: Taconic's outbred colony is known to carry the recessive mutation, Pde6b^rd1

Animal Diet: NIH #31M Rodent Diet

Growth Chart

Related Reports

View the production locations(s) and the accompanying current IHMS^TM Health Report and Taconic Health Standard for this model

Phenotyping

• Pregnancy and Litter Data

Price Table

SWGF (in U.S. Dollars)

Swiss Webster European prices

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