What do zebrafish want? Impact of social grouping dominance and gender on preference for enrichment

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 328-337

  Schroeder, Paul ^a   Jones, Soffia ^b   Young, Iain S ^b   Sneddon, Lynne U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dominance; Environmental enrichment; Preference testing; Welfare; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY; WELLBEING; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

DANIO RERIO; RODENTIA;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84927744066     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: 17581117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023677214538239     Document Type: Article

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