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To Group or Not to Group? Good Practice for Housing Male Laboratory Mice

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Wild mice live in territories inhabited by one adult male, several females, and their offspring. This cannot be replicated in the laboratory, so male mice are usually housed in single-sex groups or individually. However, there can be serious animal welfare problems associated with bo...

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Autores principales: Kappel, Sarah, Hawkins, Penny, Mendl, Michael T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5742782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29186765
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani7120088