Effect of three different forms of handling on the variation of aggression-associated parameters in individually and group-housed male C57BL/6NCrl mice

• Sinja Mertens ,

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

  * E-mail: 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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0435-7598

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• Miriam A. Vogt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3400-5067

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• Peter Gass,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Rupert Palme,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9466-3662

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• 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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6450-0675

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• Sabine Chourbaji

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

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

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