McAroe, Claire L.
Craig, Cathy M.
Holland, Richard A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Education and Learning, Northern Ireland
Article History
Received: 31 January 2017
Accepted: 17 July 2017
First Online: 28 July 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All experiments were completed in line with the guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching []. Laboratory and experimental conditions were assessed by the Veterinary Services Divison of the DHSSPS, Northern Ireland who deemed a home office project licence was not required for these experiments and was thus approved by the School of Biological Sciences ethics committee.
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