1-Literature searches

Literature searches help to:

identify possible non-animal alternatives to all or part of the proposed study
prevent unnecessary repetition of animal studies
identify efforts to reduce animal numbers
identify refinements to procedures in the planned study

Form a clear hypothesis, with primary and secondary outcomes.

General principles

For fish researchers

There are approx. 100 textbooks about the care and use of fish in research in the TextBase database, which may be helpful when deciding upon the hypotheses in a fish experiment. The more general books include:

The Laboratory Fish in Biomedical Research: Biology, Husbandry and Research Applications for zebrafish, medaka, killifish, cavefish, stickleback, goldfish and Danionella (D'Angelo & de Girolamo, 2021)
The Laboratory Fish (ed. Ostrander, 2000)
The Laboratory Zebrafish (Harper & Lawrence, 2010)
Guidance on the housing and care of Zebrafish (Danio rerio) (Reed & Jennings, 2010)
CCAC Guidelines: Zebrafish and other small, warm-water laboratory fish (2020)
CCAC Guidelines on the Care and Use of Fish in Research, Teaching and Testing (2005)
The Welfare of Fish (eds. Kristiansen et al., 2020)
The Physiology of Fishes (eds. Currie & Evans, 2020)

Books on more specific subjects are mentioned under the appropriate sections in PREPARE.

This page was updated on 24 February 2022

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