Reply to 'It is time for an empirically informed paradigm shift in animal research'

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¹ Animal Welfare Division, Vetsuisse, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. hanno.wuerbel@vetsuisse.unibe.ch.
² Animal Welfare Division, Vetsuisse, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany.
⁶ Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
⁷ Data Sciences & Quantitative Biology, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK.
⁸ Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
⁹ Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
¹⁰ Statistics and Decision Sciences, Janssen R&D, Johnson & Johnson, Beerse, Belgium.

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Hanno Würbel et al. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;21(11):661-662.

doi: 10.1038/s41583-020-0370-7.

¹ Animal Welfare Division, Vetsuisse, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. hanno.wuerbel@vetsuisse.unibe.ch.
² Animal Welfare Division, Vetsuisse, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany.
⁶ Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
⁷ Data Sciences & Quantitative Biology, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK.
⁸ Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
⁹ Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
¹⁰ Statistics and Decision Sciences, Janssen R&D, Johnson & Johnson, Beerse, Belgium.

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Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation.
Voelkl B, Altman NS, Forsman A, Forstmeier W, Gurevitch J, Jaric I, Karp NA, Kas MJ, Schielzeth H, Van de Casteele T, Würbel H. Voelkl B, et al. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2020 Jul;21(7):384-393. doi: 10.1038/s41583-020-0313-3. Epub 2020 Jun 2. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2020. PMID: 32488205
It is time for an empirically informed paradigm shift in animal research.
Richter SH, von Kortzfleisch V. Richter SH, et al. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2020 Nov;21(11):660. doi: 10.1038/s41583-020-0369-0. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2020. PMID: 32826977 No abstract available.

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