Since their development as a laboratory species ... making them a suitable research tool. The strains of rat that have been developed to express human diseases were achieved through a number ...

Lab mice—most often of the species Mus musculus ... or the Norway rat, and its various strains. Rats are also easily trainable and perfectly suited for psychological experiments, especially ...

This is particularly important for transgenic strains. Its tendency to increase ... to determine the strength of preference in laboratory rats for nest-boxes and nesting material.

Research in our laboratory looks at five different aspects of rodent ... test batteries to examine behavioural development in genetically defined mouse and rat strains and the role of genes, hormones ...