Contributors | |
Foreword | |
Introduction | |
Implementing the Three Rs in research using animals | |
The Three Rs | |
The design of animal experiments | |
Introduction to laboratory animal genetics | |
Phenotyping of genetically modified mice | |
Brief introduction to welfare assessment: a 'toolbox' of techniques | |
Welfare and 'best practice' in field studies of wildlife | |
Legislation and oversight of the conduct of research using animals: a global overview | |
Planning, design and construction of efficient animal facilities | |
Enrichment: animal welfare and experimental outcomes | |
Special housing arrangements | |
Refinements in in-house animal production and breeding | |
Transportation of laboratory animals | |
Nutrition, feeding and animal welfare | |
Attaining competence in the care of animals used in research | |
Positive reinforcement training for laboratory animals | |
Euthanasia and other fates for laboratory animals | |
Species kept in the laboratory Mammals | |
Wild mammals | |
The laboratory opossum | |
Tree shrews | |
Rodentia and Lagomorpha | |
The laboratory mouse | |
The laboratory rat | |
The laboratory gerbil | |
The Syrian hamster | |
The husbandry and welfare of non-traditional laboratory rodents | |
Voles | |
The guinea pig | |
The laboratory rabbit | |
Carnivora | |
The ferret | |
The laboratory dog | |
The domestic cat | |
Ungulates | |
Pigs and minipigs | |
Cattle | |
Sheep and goats | |
The horse | |
Non-Human Primates | |
Marmosets and tamarins | |
Squirrel monkeys | |
Capuchin monkeys | |
Old World monkeys | |
Chimpanzees | |
Birds | |
The domestic fowl | |
The Japanese quail | |
The zebra finch | |
Pigeons and doves | |
The European starling | |
Reptiles and Amphibia | |
Terrestrial reptiles: lizards, snakes and tortoises | |
Aquatic reptiles | |
Amphibians, with special reference to Xenopus | |
Fish | |
Fish | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda | |
Index | |
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