Yucatan

Yucatan™ Miniature Swine

Background

  • The two separate Yucatan colonies have the same origin
  • Developed from 25 animals imported from southern Mexico into the United States in 1960 at Colorado State University with funding from the Kroc Foundation
  • Sinclair BioResources assumed production of one colony from Biotech in 1995 and one colony from Charles River Laboratories in 2002
  • The former Biotech colony is located in Auxvasse, MO and the former Charles River Laboratory colony is in Windham, ME
  • The colonies are closed and fully pedigreed

Characteristics

  • Particularly known for their docile temperament and ease of handling
  • Darkly pigmented skin with little or no hair
  • White hairless lineage for dermal studiesYUC-BLK LOOKING UP
  • Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) lineage available
  • DNA samples are banked and available for documentation and/or genetic studies
  • The Missouri colony is MHC haplotype-defined for transplantation studies (MHC genes of these lines have been cloned and sequenced for the SLA class I and class II and the characterizations of allele-specific monoclonal antibodies)
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