Table 3. Repositories holding cre-bearing mice (as live or cryopreserved embryos or sperm) As of April 24, 2012.
Repository | No. of cre Strains | URL |
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IMSR (International Mouse Strain Resource), catalog of all holdings* | 791 | www.findmice.org |
APB (Australian Phenomics Bank, Australia) | 4 | pb.apf.edu.au/phenbank |
CMMR (Canadian Mouse Mutant Resource, Canada) | 1 | www.cmmr.ca |
EMMA (European Mouse Mutant Archive, Italy) | 75 | www.emmanet.org |
Harwell (Mammalian Genetics Unit, U.K.) | 11 | www.har.mrc.ac.uk |
JAX (The Jackson Laboratory, U.S.A.) | 368 | cre.jax.org/data.html |
MMRRC (Mouse Mutant Regional Resource Centers, U.S.A.) | 242 | www.mmrrc.org |
MUGEN (Mutant Mouse Models of Human immunological Disease Network, Greece) | 13 | www.mugen-noe.org |
NCIMR (National Cancer Institute Mutant Resource, U.S.A.) | 7 | mouse.ncifcrf.gov |
RBRC (RIKEN Biology Resource Center, Japan) | 68 | www.brc.riken.jp/lab/animal/en |
RMRC-NLAC (National Applied Research Laboratories, Taiwan, R.O.C.) | 2 | www.nlac.org.tw/RMRC/en1/page/01_aboutrmrc/01/rmrc.html |
The IMSR is a global catalog of available mouse resource. It contains records for 791 cre lines distributed across many repositories in many countries. Note that other repositories also participate in the IMSR, but many hold no cre lines, and thus do not appear on this list.