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Because the mouse is used so widely for biomedical research and the number of mouse models being generated is increasing rapidly, centralized repositories are essential if the valuable mouse strains and models that have been developed are to be securely preserved and fully exploited. Ensuring the ongoing availability of these mouse strains preserves the investment made in creating and characterizing them and creates a global resource of enormous value. The establishment of centralized mouse repositories around the world for distributing and archiving these resources has provided critical access to and preservation of these strains. This article describes the common and specialized activities provided by major mouse repositories around the world.

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  1. Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Center (MMRRC), The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA

    Leah Rae Donahue

  2. Genetic Resource Science, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA

    Leah Rae Donahue & Muriel T. Davisson

  3. European Mouse Mutant Archive, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany

    Martin Hrabe de Angelis & Michael Hagn

  4. MMRRC, University of Missouri (MU), Columbia, MO, USA

    Craig Franklin

  5. MMRRC, University of California (UCD), Davis, CA, USA

    K. C. Kent Lloyd

  6. MMRRC, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Terry Magnuson

  7. Canadian Mouse Mutant Repository, The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Colin McKerlie

  8. Center for Animal Resources and Development, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

    Naomi Nakagata

  9. RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan

    Yuichi Obata

  10. Australian PhenomeBank, Acton, ACT, Australia

    Stuart Read

  11. European Mouse Mutant Cell Repository, Munich, Germany

    Wolfgang Wurst & Andreas Hörlein

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Donahue, L.R., Hrabe de Angelis, M., Hagn, M. et al. Centralized mouse repositories. Mamm Genome 23, 559–571 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00335-012-9420-4

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