What do Ebola, rabies and bovine tuberculosis have in common? The answer is that they are all zoonotic diseases, which are diseases that originate in one species and then spillover into another. The ...

Blood sampling in laboratory animals encompasses a range of methods designed to balance data quality with animal welfare. Techniques include peripheral puncture of superficial veins (such as the ...

Data on the gut microbiota (GM) of wild animals are key to studies on evolutionary biology (host–GM interactions under natural selection), ecology and conservation biology (GM as a fitness component ...