Produced by targeted meiotic recombination in a cross between Hoxdtm13Ddu and Hoxdtm16Ddu in the presence of Tg(Sycp1-cre)4Min. Both Hoxd8 and Hoxd9 as well as most of the "i" region between Hoxd4 and Hoxd8 are deleted from the Hoxd cluster. (J:103924)