Colony Management Services

Rely on the Mouse Biology Program’s skilled and experienced staff to deliver exceptional colony management services. Our team ensures optimal health, welfare, and breeding outcomes, providing the highest level of care and support for your research models.


We can work with you to design and implement a fully customized mouse colony management plan to meet your project needs. Mouse colonies under our care are maintained in dedicated vivaria and are accessible only by assigned MBP professionals. These professionals provide simple to complex breeding schemes according to your project requirements, including Cre matings, maintaining multiplex alleles, manipulating the gut microbiome, collecting tissue and fluid samples, and more.

We focus on effectiveness and efficiency, such as minimizing cage numbers, conducting pathogen surveillance, creating a cryopreserved archive, monitoring mouse health, and providing veterinary care. In addition to monthly reports, you will have 24/7 access to colony data and information.  Although no one can guarantee the fecundity of a mouse strain or the genotypic outcome of a breeding scheme, we optimize the size of your mouse colony and number of cages to achieve your objectives quickly and efficiently. 

Colony Management Services:

  • Back-Crossing by Speed Congenics
  • Germline Testing of Chimera
  • Rederivation
  • Transport
    • Importation
    • Exportation
  • Other Custom Breeding Services