The effect of preweaning and postweaning housing on the behaviour of the laboratory mouse (Mus musculus)

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-102

  Marques, Joana M ^a   Olsson, I A S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Behaviour; Environmental enrichment; Housing; Mice; Refinement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DRINKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING; GROOMING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIDEORECORDING; WEANING;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEX FACTORS; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33846634704     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367707779399482     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Appleby MC, Walker AW, Nicol CJ, et al. (2002) Development of furnished cages for laying hens. British Poultry Science 43, 489-500
2. Archer J (1975) Rodent sex differences in emotional and related behavior. Behavioral Biology 14, 451-79
3. Beatty WW, Fessler RG (1976) Ontogeny of sex differences in open-field behavior and sensitivity in electric shock in the rat. Physiology & Behavior 16, 413-17
4. Blizard DA, Lippman HR, Chen JJ (1975) Sex differences in open-field behavior in the rat: the inductive and activational role of gonadal hormones. Physiology & Behavior 14, 601-8
5. Berry RJ, Bronson FH (1992) Life-history and bioeconomy of the house mouse. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 67, 519-50
6. Bredy TW, Humpartzoomian RA, Cain DP, Meaney MJ (2003) Partial reversal of the effect of maternal care on cognitive function through environmental enrichment. Neuroscience 118, 571-6
7. Buhot MC (1986) Nest-box exploration and choice in male and female tested under individual and social conditions. Behavioural Processes 13, 119-48
8. Buhot-Averseng MC (1981) Nest-box choice in the laboratory mouse: preferences for nest-boxes differing in design (size and/or shape) and composition. Behavioural Processes 6, 337-84
9. Caldji C, Tannenbaum B, Sharma S, Francis D, Plotsky PM, Meaney MJ (1998) Maternal care during infancy regulates the development of neural systems mediating the expression of fearfulness in the rat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95, 5335-40
10. Chapillon P, Manneché C, Belzung C, Caston J (1999) Rearing environmental enrichment in two inbred strains of mice: 1. Effects on emotional reactivity. Behavior Genetics 29, 41-6
11. Cohen H (2003) Creature comforts. Scientist May, 22-5
12. DeLuca AM (1997) Environmental enrichment: does it reduce barbering in mice? AWIC Newsletter 8, 7-8
13. Diamond MC (2001) Response of the brain to enrichment. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 73, 211-20
14. Duncan IJH, Olsson IAS (2001) Environmental enrichment: from flawed concept to pseudo-science. Proceedings of the 35th International Congress of the ISAE. Davis: University of California
15. Friske JE, Gammie SC (2005) Environmental enrichment alters plus-maze but not maternal defense performance in mice. Physiology & Behavior 85, 187-94
16. Garner JP, Dufour B, Gregg LE, Weisker SM, Mench JA (2004a) Social and husbandry factors affecting the prevalence and severity of barbering ('whisker trimming') by laboratory mice. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 89, 263-82
17. Garner JP, Weisker SM, Dufour B, Mench JA (2004b) Barbering (fur and whisker trimming) by laboratory mice as a model of human trichotillomania and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. Comparative Medicine 54, 216-24
18. Hebb DO (1947) The effects of early experience on problem-solving at maturity. American Psychologist: Journal of the American Psychological Association 2, 306-7
19. Heizmann V, Jonas I, Hirschenauer K, Havelec L (1998) Choice tests with groups of mice: nestbox, nesting material and tubes as enrichment items for laboratory mice. Experimental Animal Science 39, 43-60
20. Hockley E, Cordery PM, Woodman B, et al. (2002) Environmental enrichment slows disease progression in R6/2 Huntington's disease mice. Annals of Neurology 51, 235-42
21. Ivinskis A, Homewood J (1980) Effects of preweaning environmental enrichment on later problem-solving behavior in rats. Animal Learning & Behavior 8, 336-40
22. Johnston AL, File SE (1991) Sex differences in animal tests of anxiety. Physiology and Behavior 49, 245-50
23. Kempermann G, Kuhn HG, Gage FH (1997) More hippocampal neurons in adult mice living in an enriched environment. Nature 386, 493-5
24. König B, Markl H (1987) Maternal care in house mice. 1. The weaning strategy as a means for parental manipulation of offspring quality. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 20, 1-9
25. Latham N, Mason G (2004) From house mouse to mouse house: the behavioural biology of free-living Mus musculus and its implications in the laboratory. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 86, 261-89
26. Macri S, Mason GJ, Würbel H (2004) Dissociations in the effects of neonatal maternal separations on maternal and the offspring's HPA and fear responses in rats. European Journal of Neuroscience 20, 1017-24
27. Martin P, Bateson P (1993) Measuring Behaviour. An Introductory Guide. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
28. Militzer K, Wecker E (1986) Behaviour-associated alopecia areata in mice. Laboratory Animals 20, 9-13
29. Nevison CM, Hurst JL, Barnard CJ (1999a) Strain-specific effects of cage enrichment in male laboratory mice (Mus musculus). Animal Welfare 8, 361-79
30. Nevison CM, Hurst JL, Barnard CJ (1999b) Why do male ICR (CD-1) mice perform bar-related (stereotypic) behaviour? Behavioural Processes 47, 95-111
31. Olsson IAS, Dahlborn K (2002) Improving housing conditions for laboratory mice: a review of 'environmental enrichment'. Laboratory Animals 36, 243-70
32. Olsson IAS, Nevison CM, Patterson-Kane EG, Sherwin CM, van de Weerd HA, Würbel H (2003) Understanding behaviour: the relevance of ethological approaches in laboratory animal science. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 81, 245-64
33. Parfitt DB, Levin JK, Saltstein KP, Klayman AS, Greer LM, Helmreich DL (2004) Differential early rearing environments can accentuate or attenuate the responses to stress in male C57BL/6 mice. Brain Research 1016, 111-18
34. Reeb BC, Tang AC (2005) Sexual difference in temporal patterns of social interaction and its dependence upon neonatal novelty exposure. Behavioural Brain Research 158, 359-65
35. Reinhardt V (2004) Common husbandry-related variables in biomedical research with animals. Laboratory Animals 38, 213-35
36. Sherwin CM (1996) Laboratory mice persist in gaming access to resources: a method of assessing the importance of environmental features. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 48, 203-14
37. Sherwin CM (1997) Observations on the prevalence of nest-building in non-breeding TO strain mice and their use of two nesting materials. Laboratory Animals 31, 125-32
38. Sherwin CM, Glen EF (2003) Cage colour preferences and effects of home cage colour on anxiety in laboratory mice. Animal Behaviour 66, 1085-92
39. van de Weerd HA (1996) Environmental enrichment for laboratory mice: preferences and consequences (PhD thesis). The Netherlands: University of Utrecht
40. van de Weerd HA, van Loo PLP, van Zutphen LFM, Koolhaas JM, Baumans V (1998) Preferences for nest boxes as environmental enrichment for laboratory mice. Animal Welfare 7, 11-25
41. Van Loo PLP, Blom HJM, Meijer MK, Baumans V (2005) Assessment of the use of two commercially available environmental enrichments by laboratory mice by preference testing. Laboratory Animals 39, 58-67
42. Wemelsfelder F (1990) Boredom and laboratory animal welfare. In: The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research Vol. I - A Survey of Scientific and Ethical Issues for Investigators (Rollin BE, Kesel LM, eds) Boston: CRC Press, 243-72
43. Würbel H (2001) Ideal homes? Housing effects on rodent brain and behaviour. Trends in Neuroscience 24, 207-11
44. Würbel H, Chapman R, Rutland C (1998) Effect of feed and environmental enrichment on development of stereotypic wire-gnawing in laboratory mice. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 60, 69-81
45. Würbel H, Stauffacher M, von Holst D (1996) Stereotypies in laboratory mice - quantitative and qualitative description of the ontogeny of 'wire-gnawing' and 'jumping' in Zur:ICR and Zur:ICR nu. Ethology 102, 371-85