We thank Sophie Nunes-Figueiredo, Bogdan Buzurin, Natalia Maties, and Monica Dicu for excellent animal care.
Luckily for consumers (and for pigs) there is already a label that guarantees excellent animal welfare – organic.
Investigators who study drug addiction are fortunate to have access to excellent animal models.
Domestic pigs share similarities with humans and represent an excellent animal model for immunological studies.
For the school lunchbox, an excursion or a snack with milk, there is a cookie worth considering: Snackimals, excellent animal crackers from Barbara's Bakery in California.
These results indicate that avian osteopetrosis is an osteoblastic, proliferative disorder of bone and may serve as an excellent animal model for human diseases in which osteoblasts increase in number.
A team led by geneticist Cornelia Bargmann of the University of California, San Francisco, found an excellent animal model in which a complex behavior is clearly genetically programmed: Some populations of the tiny roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans hunt bacteria as a pack, while others forage on their own.
They are also excellent animal model systems for determining the efficacy of anti-cancer therapeutics.
We thank Susanne and Cecilia in the MBB animal facility for excellent animal care.
We would like to thank Cédric Dupuy for excellent animal care and Hélène Woehrle for technical assistance.
We also thank C. Horton; V. deFreitas and K.Whitney for the excellent animal care and help with the genotyping.
