Understanding the comfort and enthusiasm of experimental laboratory mice allows researchers to enhance their outcomes and the ...

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 ...

Setup, system maintenance ... The cages assessed in one study included mice newly received from vendors, mice weaned from cages adapted to both Hydropac and water bottle/automated watering ...

Most of the mice held at the Max Planck Institutes come from the Institutes’ own breeding programmes, though some are also obtained from professional breeders of lab animals. Trained animal keepers ...

Inter-male aggression in mice continues to challenge laboratory animal husbandry personnel, as intervention strategies are typically applied at the cage level without a good understanding of how ...

In one experiment, Stowers painted the backs of male mice with urine and introduced them into the cages of knockout mice. The knockout mice failed to show aggression toward their new cage mates. “It ...