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European directive gets its tentacles into octopus research

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Researchers fear 'mammal-centric' regulation is ill-suited to cephalopod work.

The times are changing for European biologists who work with octopuses, squid and cuttlefish. A European Union (EU) regulation on animal experiments will soon make them familiar with the bureaucracy that is already the daily routine of those who experiment on monkeys and mice.

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Nosengo, N. European directive gets its tentacles into octopus research. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.229

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