All animal protocols need quantitative justification of animal numbers, but not all will need power calculations.
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Reynolds, P.S. When power calculations won’t do: Fermi approximation of animal numbers. Lab Anim 48, 249–253 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-019-0370-2
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