Health & Care of Laboratory Animals: Recent Perspectives on Zebrafish Management and Welfare
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Welfare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 4242
Special Issue Editor
Interests: behavioral neuroscience; cognitive neuroscience; memory; neurobiology and brain physiology; learning and memory; inflammation; imaging; genetics; neurophysiology; neurobiology; neurodegeneration; neurodegenerative diseases; animal welfare,
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) has become a commonly used research animal all around the world. It has been estimated that over 3250 institutes in 100 countries are currently working with zebrafish. Given its popularity as a laboratory animal, there is relatively little research being conducted on zebrafish welfare, and there are no global guidelines regarding different aspects of zebrafish handling and husbandry that are built on evidence-based systematic research. Apart from ensuring that laboratory zebrafish receive appropriate care, establishing and following standardized guidelines for handling and housing research animals also allows for reproducibility of experimental data and the possibility of data sharing and meta-analysis which, in turn, can reduce the number of animals used in testing.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect the latest knowledge in the field of zebrafish welfare and provide an updated collection of tools and techniques that can increase zebrafish welfare. We are inviting original papers evaluating the effects of different housing conditions (such as feeding regime and water quality) and experimental methods on zebrafish welfare as well as original papers presenting new research techniques that can improve zebrafish welfare. Furthermore, innovative methods to evaluate zebrafish welfare are very welcome, including but not limited to behavioral and physiological approaches. Moreover, systematic reviews and meta-analyses of research techniques and housing conditions of zebrafish in relation to animal welfare are also invited, as they can serve as a basis for future establishment of general guidelines for the zebrafish research community.
Dr. Petronella Kettunen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- welfare indicators
- research animals
- the 3Rs
- guidelines
- husbandry
- fish diseases
- water quality
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