High laboratory mouse pre-weaning mortality associated with litter overlap, advanced dam age, small and large litters

• Gabriela M. Morello ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: gabriela.morello@i3s.up.pt

  Affiliations Laboratory Animal Science, IBMC-Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, i3S –Institute for Investigation and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5439-969X

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• Jan Hultgren,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Environment and Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skara, Sweden

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• Sara Capas-Peneda,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory Animal Science, IBMC-Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, i3S –Institute for Investigation and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0167-8812

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• Marc Wiltshire,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Aurelie Thomas,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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• Hannah Wardle-Jones,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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• Sophie Brajon,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory Animal Science, IBMC-Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, i3S –Institute for Investigation and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Colin Gilbert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2126-5828

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• I. Anna S. Olsson

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

  Affiliations Laboratory Animal Science, IBMC-Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, i3S –Institute for Investigation and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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