{"id":2194,"date":"2018-12-21T00:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite-dev.hkust.edu.hk\/?page_id=2194"},"modified":"2023-11-11T16:39:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T08:39:03","slug":"mouse-colony-management-consultation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/?page_id=2194","title":{"rendered":"Mouse Breeding Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maintain genetic quality when breeding for mouse colonies is always overlooked, potentially compromising the quality of research. Knowledge of specific strains needs to be acquired before tailor-making the breeding strategies to ensure efficient and quality research.<\/p>\n<p>Common areas requiring consultation include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Efficient breeding program upon receiving founder animals from vendors<\/li>\n<li>Breeding for compound (double\/triple) transgenic strain<\/li>\n<li>Breeding for embryonic stage animals<\/li>\n<li>Determining the proper genetic background(s) to be maintained<\/li>\n<li>Awareness of congenic vs non-congenic strain<\/li>\n<li>Selecting the proper control animals for the experimentation<\/li>\n<li>Avoiding genetic drift and sub-strain deviation from the strain you obtained from vendors<\/li>\n<li>Archiving precious strains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please contact Dr. Siva TSANG (PhD) for the consultation (email:tsangwh@ust.hk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintain genetic quality when breeding for mouse colonies is always overlooked, potentially compromising the quality of research. Knowledge of specific strains needs to be acquired before tailor-making the breeding strategies to ensure efficient and quality research. Common areas requiring consultation include the following: Efficient breeding program upon receiving founder animals from vendors Breeding for compound &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/?page_id=2194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mouse Breeding Consultation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3620,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2194\/revisions\/3620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}