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It's the November episode of 3-Minute 3Rs, brought to you by Lab Animal (www.nature.com/laban), the NC3Rs (www.nc3rs.org.uk) & the North American 3Rs Collaborative (www.na3rsc.org) The papers behind the pod: 1. Sixteen diverse laboratory mouse reference genomes define strain-specific haplotypes and novel functional loci. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0223-8 2. Effects of Cage Enrichment on Behavior, Welfare and Outcome Variability in Female Mice https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00232/full 3. Effects of Music Enrichment on Individually Housed Male New Zealand White Rabbits. https://doi.org/10.30802/AALAS-JAALAS-17-000153 Transcript: [NC3Rs] When the complete mouse genome sequence was first published 16 years ago, it was a breakthrough that sped up many scientific discoveries and improved our understanding of genetics. But, given the large collection and variety of mouse strains available, it is very important to recognise and understand the differences between them. Th