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Volume 52 Issue 8, August 2023

New calculator for planning breedings

Colony management of gene-modified animals is time-consuming, costly and affected by random events related to Mendelian genetics, fertility and litter size. In a new Article, Milchevskaya, Bugnon et al. developed an R package that enables the estimation of group size required for mouse breeding, taking into account Mendelian genetics, fertility and litter size.

See Milchevskaya, Bugnon et al.

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