Torres-Velarde, Julia
Llera-Herrera, Raúl
Ibarra-Castro, Leonardo
García-Gasca, Teresa
García-Gasca, Alejandra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4496-2434
Funding for this research was provided by:
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (179098, 258545)
Article History
Received: 23 August 2019
Accepted: 16 October 2019
First Online: 21 October 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Mexican policies for animal welfare do not involve regulations for experimental protocols in fish; therefore, we are currently creating an Ethics Committee to revise all experimental protocols involving lower vertebrates and invertebrates. We followed all procedures according Mexican guidelines and policies stated in the NOM-062-ZOO-1999 (these guidelines apply mostly to mammalian species but we applied the same principles regarding animal welfare and care), and British guidelines for fish welfare reported by [].