Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

The following paper describes research with animals.  this study was reviewed and approved by an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee which decided the study had adequately incorporated reduction, replacement, and refinement for the study to go forward.

Asher, Lucy, Gary C. W. England, Rebecca Sommerville, and Naomi D. Harvey. “Teenage Dogs? Evidence for Adolescent-Phase Conflict Behaviour and an Association between Attachment to Humans and Pubertal Timing in the Domestic Dog.”

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Biology Letters 16, no. 5 (May 27, 2020): 20200097. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0097 (Links to an external site.).

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Question 1

In one paragraph, summarize the research reported in the paper above.  This information is provided in the methods section of the paper.  In your paragraph answer, as best you can, the following questions:

• What kinds of animals were used?
• How many?
• Were the animals used as model organisms? (think physiology and vivisection) Or as a kind of technology or methodological tool? (think bacteriology, inoculation, and serial passage of a virus through generations of animals).