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Use of Wooden Boxes for Breeding Mice
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Use of Wooden Boxes for Breeding Mice

  • JOYCE L. BLOOM1,
  • W. LANE-PETTER1 &
  • G. PORTER1 

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As a result of a personal communication made to one of us that the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S.A., had reverted to the use of wooden boxes in preference to metal boxes for breeding mice, and had thus restored their previous level of productivity, it was decided to investigate the most suitable pattern of box and its mode of construction.

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BLOOM, J., LANE-PETTER, W. & PORTER, G. Use of Wooden Boxes for Breeding Mice. Nature 180, 251 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180251a0

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