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

• Robert J. Lucas ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: robert.lucas@manchester.ac.uk (RJL); stuart.peirson@eye.ox.ac.uk (SNP)

  Affiliation Centre for Biological Timing, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1088-8029

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• Annette E. Allen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Biological Timing, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• George C. Brainard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Timothy M. Brown,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Biological Timing, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Robert T. Dauchy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Altug Didikoglu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Izmir Institute of Technology, Gülbahçe, Urla, Izmir, Turkey

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• Michael Tri H. Do,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Center for Life Science, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Brianna N. Gaskill,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Samer Hattar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section on Light and Circadian Rhythms (SLCR), National Institute of Mental Health, John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Penny Hawkins,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation RSPCA, Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom

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• Roelof A. Hut,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chronobiology Unit, Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

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• Richard J. McDowell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Biological Timing, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Randy J. Nelson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Jan-Bas Prins,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Tiffany M. Schmidt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

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• Joseph S. Takahashi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Peter O’Donnell Jr Brain Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Vandana Verma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NASA Ames Research Center, Space Biosciences Division, Moffett Field, California, United States of America

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• Vootele Voikar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory Animal Center and Neuroscience Center, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Sara Wells,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Mary Lyon Centre, MRC Harwell, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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• Stuart N. Peirson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: robert.lucas@manchester.ac.uk (RJL); stuart.peirson@eye.ox.ac.uk (SNP)

  Affiliation Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3653-834X

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