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Epidemiology and clinical management of nail clipping in dogs under UK primary veterinary care (2025)
Journal Article
O'Neill, D., Ahmed, L. . A., Somarriba, M., Brodbelt, D. . C., & Church, D. . B. (2025). Epidemiology and clinical management of nail clipping in dogs under UK primary veterinary care. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jsap.70002

Objectives This study aimed to report the frequency, risk factors and clinical management of nail clipping in dogs under primary veterinary care across the United Kingdom during 2019 within the VetCompass Programme. Materials and Methods From a popul... Read More about Epidemiology and clinical management of nail clipping in dogs under UK primary veterinary care.

Animal welfare risks from commercial practices involving cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans (2025)
Journal Article
Browning, H., Burn, C., Schnell, A., Crump, A., & Birch, J. (2025). Animal welfare risks from commercial practices involving cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans. Animal Welfare Journal, https://doi.org/10.1017/awf.2025.25

There is increasing recognition that the welfare needs of cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans are important. Current commercial practices involving these animals include a range of potential threats to their welfare, such as conditions of far... Read More about Animal welfare risks from commercial practices involving cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans.

Behavioural Engagement of Holstein Friesian Dairy Cattle with Different Mounting Techniques for Salt Licks as Environmental Enrichment (2025)
Journal Article
McLaughlin, D., & Blackie, N. (2025). Behavioural Engagement of Holstein Friesian Dairy Cattle with Different Mounting Techniques for Salt Licks as Environmental Enrichment. Animals, 15(5), 701. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15050701

With increasing numbers of dairy farms adopting zero-grazing systems, there is a growing need for indoor environmental enrichment methods. Enrichment is necessary to meet industry requirements and fulfil behavioural motivations, such as oral manipula... Read More about Behavioural Engagement of Holstein Friesian Dairy Cattle with Different Mounting Techniques for Salt Licks as Environmental Enrichment.

Canine Separation-Related Behaviour at 6 months of Age: Dog, Owner and Early-Life Risk Factors Identified Using the ‘Generation Pup’ Longitudinal Study (2024)
Journal Article
Dale, F., Burn, C., Murray, J., & Casey, R. (2024). Canine Separation-Related Behaviour at 6 months of Age: Dog, Owner and Early-Life Risk Factors Identified Using the ‘Generation Pup’ Longitudinal Study. Animal Welfare Journal, 33, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1017/awf.2024.56

Separation-related behaviours (SRBs) in dogs (Canis familiaris) often indicate poor welfare. Understanding SRB risk factors can aid prevention strategies. We investigated whether early-life experiences and dog-owner interactions affect SRB developmen... Read More about Canine Separation-Related Behaviour at 6 months of Age: Dog, Owner and Early-Life Risk Factors Identified Using the ‘Generation Pup’ Longitudinal Study.

Development of the Brief Open Research Survey (BORS) to measure awareness and uptake of Open Research practices (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Norris, E., Clark, K., Munafò, M., Jay, C., Baldwin, J., Lautarescu, A., Pedder, H., Page, M., Rinke, E. M., Burn, C., Cawthorn, W., Ballou, N., Glover, S., Evans, S., Rossit, S., Soltanlou, M., Wise, E., Kelson, M., Soliman, N., Jones, A. J., …Pennington, C. Development of the Brief Open Research Survey (BORS) to measure awareness and uptake of Open Research practices

Objectives: Whilst the need for Open Research practices is well documented, there remains a lack of validated questionnaires to assess their prevalence. This study validated the Brief Open Research Survey (BORS) to measure Open Research awareness and... Read More about Development of the Brief Open Research Survey (BORS) to measure awareness and uptake of Open Research practices.

Using a Whole Genome Co- expression Network to Inform the Functional Characterisation of Predicted Genomic Elements from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transcriptomic Data (2023)
Journal Article
Stiens, J., Yi Tan, Y., Joyce, R., Arnvig, K. B., Kendall, S. L., & Nobeli, I. (in press). Using a Whole Genome Co- expression Network to Inform the Functional Characterisation of Predicted Genomic Elements from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transcriptomic Data. Molecular Microbiology, https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.15055

A whole genome co-expression network was created using Mycobacterium tuberculosis transcriptomic data from publicly available RNA-sequencing experiments covering a wide variety of experimental conditions. The network includes expressed regions with... Read More about Using a Whole Genome Co- expression Network to Inform the Functional Characterisation of Predicted Genomic Elements from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transcriptomic Data.

The PfRCR complex bridges malaria parasite and erythrocyte during invasion (2023)
Journal Article
Farrell, B., Alam, N., Hart, M. N., Jamwal, A., Ragotte, R. J., Walters-Morgan, H., Draper, S. J., Knuepfer, E., & Higgins, M. K. (2023). The PfRCR complex bridges malaria parasite and erythrocyte during invasion. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06856-1

The symptoms of malaria occur during the blood stage of infection, when parasites invade and replicate within human erythrocytes. The PfPCRCR complex1, containing PfRH5 (refs. 2,3), PfCyRPA, PfRIPR, PfCSS and PfPTRAMP, is essential for erythrocyte in... Read More about The PfRCR complex bridges malaria parasite and erythrocyte during invasion.

Lifting laboratory rats: a survey of methods, handlers’ reasons and concerns, and rat behavioural responses (2023)
Journal Article
Burn, C., Camacho, T., & Hockenhull, J. (2023). Lifting laboratory rats: a survey of methods, handlers’ reasons and concerns, and rat behavioural responses. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 268, Article 106077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2023.106077

Lifting mice by the tail is of animal welfare and scientific concern, but rat lifting methods are little researched, potentially differing from mice. Using an online questionnaire we explored different methods for lifting laboratory rats, alongside h... Read More about Lifting laboratory rats: a survey of methods, handlers’ reasons and concerns, and rat behavioural responses.