PUBLICATION
Hatching Fish-When Should Animal Tracking Begin?
- Authors
- Moulder, G.L.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-160510-7
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Zebrafish 13 Suppl 1: S150-2 (Other)
- Registered Authors
- Moulder, Gary
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animal Care Committees/legislation & jurisprudence*
- Animal Welfare/legislation & jurisprudence*
- Animals
- Animals, Laboratory
- United States
- Zebrafish*
- PubMed
- 27158771 Full text @ Zebrafish
Citation
Moulder, G.L. (2016) Hatching Fish-When Should Animal Tracking Begin?. Zebrafish. 13 Suppl 1:S150-2.
Abstract
The National Institutes of Health: Final Report to Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) on Euthanasia of Zebrafish (2009) established for the first time a policy for the developmental stage at which zebrafish would qualify for animal oversight by OLAW interpretation of Public Health Service policy. This policy established the time point based on a comparison with chicken/avian hatching. For zebrafish, this is 3 days postfertilization (dpf). This is in contrast to the traditional time established within the community as 7 dpf. There are significant implications for this policy not the least of which is the demand to account for all embryo and larvae at all stages. This narrative provides a situational context based on a synthesis of real experience with this policy. The hope is that it provides a starting point for a community conversation on the hatching time point as the appropriate established policy for the future.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping