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| Title |
Energy Reallocation to Breeding Performance through Improved Nest Building in Laboratory Mice
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0074153 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Brianna N. Gaskill, Kathleen R. Pritchett-Corning, Christopher J. Gordon, Edmond A. Pajor, Jeffrey R. Lucas, Jerry K. Davis, Joseph P. Garner |
| Abstract |
Mice are housed at temperatures (20-26 °C) that increase their basal metabolic rates and impose high energy demands to maintain core temperatures. Therefore, energy must be reallocated from other biological processes to increase heat production to offset heat loss. Supplying laboratory mice with nesting material may provide sufficient insulation to reduce heat loss and improve both feed conversion and breeding performance. Naïve C57BL/6, BALB/c, and CD-1 breeding pairs were provided with bedding alone, or bedding supplemented with either 8 g of Enviro-Dri, 8 g of Nestlets, for 6 months. Mice provided with either nesting material built more dome-like nests than controls. Nesting material improved feed efficiency per pup weaned as well as pup weaning weight. The breeding index (pups weaned/dam/week) was higher when either nesting material was provided. Thus, the sparing of energy for thermoregulation of mice given additional nesting material may have been responsible for the improved breeding and growth of offspring. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 57 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 54 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 10 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 9% |
| Other | 14 | 25% |
| Unknown | 8 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 20 | 35% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 7 | 12% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 9% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 12% |
| Unknown | 11 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 December 2014.
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#3,674,765
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#45,441
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#32,715
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#1,103
of 4,974 outputs
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