Effects of social stress and intrauterine position on sexual phenotype in wild-type house mice (Mus musculus)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 117-123

  Zielinski, William J ^a   Vandenbergh, John G ^a   Montano, Monica M ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrauterine position; Mice; Sexual phenotype; Social stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; AROUSAL; CORTICOSTERONE; CROWDING; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MICE; PREGNANCY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX MATURATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0025966065     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(91)90241-F     Document Type: Article

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