Not all mice are equal: welfare implications of behavioural habituation profiles in four 129 mouse substrains.

Safeguarding the welfare of animals is an important aim when defining housing and management standards in animal based, experimental research. While such standards are usually defined per animal species, it is known that considerable differences between laboratory mouse strains exist, for example wi...

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Main Authors: Hetty Boleij, Amber R Salomons, Mariska van Sprundel, Saskia S Arndt, Frauke Ohl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3411796?pdf=render