Current practices in a captive breeding colony of 13-lined ground squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus)

Lab Animal

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 315-325

  Merriman, Dana K ^a   Lahvis, Garet ^b   Jooss, Michelle ^a   Gesicki, Jon A ^a   Schill, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; DIET; HIBERNATION; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOTIVATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; SCIURIDAE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BREEDING; DIET; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HIBERNATION; HOUSING, ANIMAL; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSPORTATION; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84867799660     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban.150     Document Type: Article

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