Weber, Elin
- Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- University of Porto
Research article2013Peer reviewedOpen access
Pup mortality in laboratory mice - infanticide or not?
Weber, Elin; Algers, Bo; Hultgren, Jan; Olsson, I. Anna S.
Abstract
Conclusion: These results suggest that other causes than infanticide plays a major role in mouse pup death, and stress the need for more systematic and careful investigations of the causality of litter loss.
Keywords
Perinatal mortality; Maternal behaviour; Laboratory mice; Infanticide; Cannibalism
Published in
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
2013, volume: 55
Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
SLU Authors
Algers, Bo
- Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Hultgren, Jan
- Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
UKÄ Subject classification
Other Veterinary Science
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-55-83
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/55243