About the Authors

Ute Hobbiesiefken

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), German Center for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R), Berlin, Germany

Paul Mieske

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), German Center for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R), Berlin, Germany

Lars Lewejohann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), German Center for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R), Berlin, Germany, Institute of Animal Welfare, Animal Behavior and Laboratory Animal Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Kai Diederich

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Kai.Diederich@bfr.bund.de

Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), German Center for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R), Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.