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

The effect of early life experience, environment and genetic factors on spontaneous home-cage aggression-related wounding in male C57BL/6 mice

(2017) Brianna N Gaskill et al.   LAB ANIMAL

Aggression in group-housed laboratory mice: why can't we solve the problem?

(2017) Elin M. Weber et al.   LAB ANIMAL

Social context-dependent relationships between mouse dominance rank and plasma hormone levels

(2017) Cait M. Williamson et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Looking on the bright side of bias—Validation of an affective bias test for laboratory mice

(2016) Dana Marie Graulich et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Hypothalamic control of male aggression-seeking behavior

(2016) Annegret L Falkner et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Bee happy

(2016) M. T. Mendl et al.   SCIENCE

Analysis of Individual Mouse Activity in Group Housed Animals of Different Inbred Strains using a Novel Automated Home Cage Analysis System

(2016) Rasneer S. Bains et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Social Isolation Stress Induces Anxious-Depressive-Like Behavior and Alterations of Neuroplasticity-Related Genes in Adult Male Mice

(2016) Alessandro Ieraci et al.   NEURAL PLASTICITY

Updating Animal Welfare Thinking: Moving beyond the “Five Freedoms” towards “A Life Worth Living”

(2016) David Mellor   Animals

Neurobiology of rodent self-grooming and its value for translational neuroscience

(2015) Allan V. Kalueff et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The Significance of Meaning: Why Do Over 90% of Behavioral Neuroscience Results Fail to Translate to Humans, and What Can We Do to Fix It?

(2014) J. P. Garner   ILAR JOURNAL

Repeated positive fighting experience in male inbred mice

(2014) Natalia N Kudryavtseva et al.   Nature Protocols

Advantages and limitations of the Five Domains model for assessing welfare impacts associated with vertebrate pest control

(2014) NJ Beausoleil et al.   NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL

The Lonely Mouse – Single Housing Affects Serotonergic Signaling Integrity Measured by 8-OH-DPAT-Induced Hypothermia in Male Mice

(2014) Otto Kalliokoski et al.   PLoS One

Toward a neurology of loneliness.

(2014) Stephanie Cacioppo et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Effects of group housing on stress induced emotional and neuroendocrine alterations

(2013) Xiao Liu et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Assessment of postsurgical distress and pain in laboratory mice by nest complexity scoring

(2013) Paulin Jirkof et al.   LABORATORY ANIMALS

Nest Building as an Indicator of Health and Welfare in Laboratory Mice

(2013) Brianna N. Gaskill et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

How to improve housing conditions of laboratory animals: The possibilities of environmental refinement

(2012) V. Baumans et al.   VETERINARY JOURNAL

Strain and Sex Differences in Anxiety-Like and Social Behaviors in C57BL/6J and BALB/cJ Mice

(2011) Xiao-Lei AN et al.   EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS

Extending ideas about animal welfare assessment to include ‘quality of life’ and related concepts

(2011) TC Green et al.   NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL

Social deprivation stress is a triggering factor for the emergence of anxiety- and depression-like behaviours and leads to reduced brain BDNF levels in C57BL/6J mice

(2011) Alessandra Berry et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

The Gold Standard Publication Checklist (GSPC) for improved design, reporting and scientific quality of animal studies GSPC versus ARRIVE guidelines

(2010) C Hooijmans et al.   LABORATORY ANIMALS

A guide to defining and implementing protocols for the welfare assessment of laboratory animals: eleventh report of the BVAAWF/FRAME/RSPCA/UFAW Joint Working Group on Refinement

(2010) P Hawkins et al.   LABORATORY ANIMALS

Taming anxiety in laboratory mice

(2010) Jane L Hurst et al.   NATURE METHODS

"Control" laboratory rodents are metabolically morbid: Why it matters

(2010) B. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Improving Bioscience Research Reporting: The ARRIVE Guidelines for Reporting Animal Research

(2010) Carol Kilkenny et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Cognitive bias as an indicator of animal emotion and welfare: Emerging evidence and underlying mechanisms

(2009) Michael Mendl et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Social deficits, stereotypy and early emergence of repetitive behavior in the C58/J inbred mouse strain

(2009) Bryce C. Ryan et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

The impact of light, noise, cage cleaning and in-house transport on welfare and stress of laboratory rats

(2009) M J Castelhano-Carlos et al.   LABORATORY ANIMALS

Nest-building behaviour in sows and consequences for pig husbandry

(2009) Diane Wischner et al.   Livestock Science

Emotions are emergent processes: they require a dynamic computational architecture

(2009) K. R. Scherer   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Refinement: promoting the three Rs in practice

(2008) M H Lloyd et al.   LABORATORY ANIMALS

The postweaning social isolation in C57BL/6 mice: preferential vulnerability in the male sex

(2008) Susanna Pietropaolo et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

A targeted approach to developing environmental enrichment for two strains of laboratory mice

(2007) Christine J. Nicol et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Removing individual rats affects indicators of welfare in the remaining group members

(2007) Oliver Burman et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Assessment of positive welfare: A review

(2007) J.W. Yeates et al.   VETERINARY JOURNAL