Introduction of artificial plants has no detrimental or beneficial effects on laboratory zebrafish husbandry but limits available swimming space

• Aymene Youcef Krachni,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Department German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals and Experimental Toxicology, Berlin, Germany

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• Richard Busch,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Department German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals and Experimental Toxicology, Berlin, Germany

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• Indigo Brakus,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Department German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals and Experimental Toxicology, Berlin, Germany

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• Angelina Schumann,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Department German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals and Experimental Toxicology, Berlin, Germany

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• Jenny Wilzopolski,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Department German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals and Experimental Toxicology, Berlin, Germany

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• Nils Ohnesorge

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

  * E-mail: nils.ohnesorge@bfr.bund.de

  Affiliation German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Department German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals and Experimental Toxicology, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4081-6648

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