Report of the federation of european laboratory animal science associations working group on animal identification

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-11

  Dahlborn, K ^a   Bugnon, P ^b   Nevalainen, T ^c   Raspa, M ^d   Verbost, P ^e   Spangenberg, E ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Hevossaarentie 21 ^*  (Finland)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Biopsy; Refinement; Rodent identification; Toe clipping

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; DISTAL PHALANX; DNA DETERMINATION; FOOT PAD; GENOTYPE; GOLD STANDARD; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TATTOOING; TOE;

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; MICE; RATS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84878068147     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002367712473290     Document Type: Article

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