Ethics committees and funding agencies often receive protocols that involve either too many or too few animals to answer the specific research question being investigated. It is evident that a greater ...

(Portions of this text are reprinted from Dell et al., 2002.) Scientists who intend to use animals in research must justify the number of animals to be used, and committees that review proposals to ...

The genetic relatedness between individuals because of their recent common ancestry is now routinely estimated from marker genotype data in molecular ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation ...