News Feature: What happens when lab animals go wild
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News Feature: What happens when lab animals go wild.
In the summer of 2015, a pioneering band of laboratory mice did something their ancestors hadn’t done for roughly 1,000 generations—they went outside. It was hardly a trek into the wilderness. The 90 mice were fenced into pens, with feeding stations providing all the mouse chow they could eat and aluminum pie plates dangling over their heads to deter passing hawks. Still, it was aworld away fro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803284115