research animal models

ORIGIN
This mutation occured in 1962, in a colony of albino outbred mice maintained at the Ruchill Hospital in Glasgow. The strain BALB/cByJ-nude was created by repeated backcrosses to move the nude gene onto the BALB/cByJ background.

COAT COLOR
Homozygotes: hairless, unpigmented; Heterozygotes: haired, albino

JAX^® Mice Stock Number 000711

BREEDING LOCATION
France

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For more information, please visit http://jaxmice.jax.org/strain/000711.html.

Note: Only The Jackson Laboratory and Charles River in Europe and Japan maintain colonies of JAX® Mice strains which are derived from pedigreed mice from The Jackson Laboratory and are re-infused routinely with pedigreed mice to stabilise the genetic integrity and phenotype of these strains.

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