About the Authors

Sinja Mertens

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sinja.mertens@ibf.uniheidelberg.de

Affiliations Institute for Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Farm Animal Behaviour and Virtual Center for Replacement—Complementary Methods to Animal Testing, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany, University of Heidelberg, Interfaculty Biomedical Research Facility (IBF), Heidelberg, Germany

Miriam A. Vogt

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation University of Heidelberg, Interfaculty Biomedical Research Facility (IBF), Heidelberg, Germany

Peter Gass

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Heidelberg, Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH), Mannheim Faculty, Heidelberg, Germany

Rupert Palme

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Unit of Physiology, Pathophysiology and Experimental Endocrinology, Vienna, Austria

Bernhard Hiebl

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Farm Animal Behaviour and Virtual Center for Replacement—Complementary Methods to Animal Testing, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

Sabine Chourbaji

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Heidelberg, Interfaculty Biomedical Research Facility (IBF), Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.