Guidelines and Commentaries

We publish guidelines in areas of relevance to our community, such as mouse pathology, high-throughput phenotyping, and screening and validation of genome-edited animals, as well as commentaries on the latest issues of interest.

Recommendations for measuring and standardizing light for laboratory mammals to improve welfare and reproducibility in animal research

Lucas, R. J., Allen, A. E., Brainard, G. C., Brown, T. M., Dauchy, R. T., Didikoglu, A., Do, M. T. H., Gaskill, B. N., Hattar, S., Hawkins, P., Hut, R. A., McDowell, R. J., Nelson, R. J., Prins, J. B., Schmidt, T. M., Takahashi, J. S., Verma, V., Voikar, V., Wells, S., Peirson, S. N.

(2024) , PLoS Biol , 22 , e3002535

10.1371/journal.pbio.3002535

PMC10931507

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How much do we know about the function of mammalian genes?

Teboul, L., Hérault, Y., Wells, S., Pavlovic, G.

(2023) , BMC Biol , 21 , 301

10.1186/s12915-023-01794-w

PMC10755963

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Life science and healthcare

Fray, M., Clarke, D., Martin-Fernandez, M., Cuff, L., Piotrowska, A., Amos, R., Thomas, R.

(2022) , Book: Cryogenics - Chapter 8 , , 1-35

doi.org/10.1088/978-0-7503-2757-2ch8

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Improving biomedical research by automated behaviour monitoring in the animal home cage – action needed for networking

Hölter, S. M., Wells, S., Voikar, V.

(2022) , Lab Anim , ,

10.1177/00236772221117451

36148902

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Screening and validation of genome-edited animals

Bunton-Stasyshyn, R. K., Codner, G. F., Teboul, L.

(2021) , Lab Anim , 56 , 69-82

10.1177/00236772211016922

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