Refuge cover decreases the incidence of bite wounds in laboratory South African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis)

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 33-36

  Torreilles, Stéphanie L ^a   Green, Sherril L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLONITRILE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BITE WOUND; CANNIBALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; FEMALE; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; XENOPUS LAEVIS; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BITES AND STINGS; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 36048929773     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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