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

• Weber, Elin

  • Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • University of Porto

• Algers, Bo

  • 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
    

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