The Jackson Laboratory

Breeding Wave Schedule for 009376 J:DO

  • The Diversity Outbred (DO) stock is bred in waves, producing mice for shipment approximately 4 times per calendar year.
  • When placing your order please indicate the desired generation for shipping.
  • Due to the breeding frequency, age requests and specific ship dates are not guaranteed.
  • Due to aggression, orders must ship in the time frame assigned to the providing generation.
  • Due to the limitations of the colony size, non-sibling cohorts will be limited to 50 mice per sex, per customer, per generation.¹
  • Contact our Customer Service to place an order.

Current Calendar

2024-2026 Breeding Wave Schedule

Generation/Wave

Shipping Dates

Deadline for

Order Placement ²

Winter 2024-2025

G57

January 31 – February 12, 2025

January 23, 2025

Spring 2025

G58

April 25 – May 7, 2025

April 17, 2025

Summer 2025

G59

July 25 – August 6, 2025

July 17, 2025

Fall 2025

G60

November 7 – November 19, 2025

October 30, 2025

Winter 2025-2026

G61

January 30 – February 11, 2026

January 22, 2026

¹ For small studies using less than 50 DO mice, it may be helpful to avoid using siblings in order to maximize allelic variation within the cohort. For larger studies, including genetic mapping, it is not possible to avoid siblings or other closely related animals (double-cousins) due to the limitations of the breeding colony size. The presence of close relatives can be understood through genetic analysis of kinship and may even assist with estimating heritability of a trait. Therefore, non-siblings can only be requested for orders under 50 mice per breeding wave (i.e. generation). No matter the size of the order, all are filled in a manner that minimizes the numbers of closely related animals, unless siblings are specifically requested. * A 30.6% upcharge will be applied per non-sibling mouse.

² Deadlines for each generation will include order placement and any updates to order. Updates to orders past this deadline are subject to rescheduling

Previous Year's Calendar

2023-2025 Breeding Wave Schedule

Generation/Wave

Shipping Dates

Deadline for

Order Placement ²

Winter 2023-2024

G53

January 12 – January 24, 2024

January 4

Spring 2024

G54

April 19 – May 1, 2024

April 11

Summer 2024

G55

July 26 – August 7, 2024

July 18

Fall 2024

G56

November 1 – November 13, 2024

October 24

Winter 2024-2025

G57

January 31 – February 12, 2025

January 23, 2025

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