@article{2729a96877c14fd6bc65405dfbad0d2e,
title = "Current practices in a captive breeding colony of 13-lined ground squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus)",
abstract = "The authors provide an update to their 2006 report on the successful large-scale captive breeding of the 13-lined ground squirrel (TLGS; Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) in their colony, now a single-source supplier of purpose-bred TLGSs for several research institutions. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the authors have expanded their capacity for breeding pairs and built a dedicated hibernaculum to house torpid animals in the facility. The authors report new information on housing, diet, environmental enrichment, breeding, behavior and health. They also report the findings of several in-house studies on the health, behavior and well-being of their TLGSs.",
author = "Merriman, {Dana K.} and Garet Lahvis and Michelle Jooss and Gesicki, {Jon A.} and Kelly Schill",
note = "Funding Information: for vision research projects. As colleagues became aware of our success, we fielded increasing numbers of requests for captive-bred TLGSs. Our 2006 paper8 described our breeding methodology in detail. Since then, we have assisted two institutions (the National Eye Institute and the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse) in setting up their own TLGS breeding colonies, obtained funding from National Institutes of Health{\textquoteright}s National Center for Research Resources to expand the capacity of our facility and achieved accreditation by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) International.",
year = "2012",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1038/laban.150",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "41",
pages = "315--325",
journal = "Lab Animal",
issn = "0093-7355",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "11",
}