Current guidelines pertaining to the housing of laboratory animals express caging standards for rodents in terms of minimum floor space and minimum height, relative to the body weight of the animal.
During the last decade there have been vast improvements in the husbandry of large animals in our local zoos. Instead of living in the solitary cages that were formerly the norm, animals now more ...
The MMRU CLAMS unit can house up to 76 mice at a time. This highly versatile system is capable of monitoring/controlling the following parameters, in virtually any permutation. Please read the CLAMS ...
In this project, funded by an AWI Refinement Grant, we tested whether raising male mice in partially divided cages affected aggression and behavioral performance from weaning through 180 days old in ...
Researchers have created genome-wide, high-resolution genetic maps of 100 inbred mouse strains. Compared with wild-derived strains, most of today's classical lab strains have limited genetic diversity ...