Multiple selection responses in house mice bidirectionally selected for thermoregulatory nest-building behavior: Crosses of replicate lines

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 439-446

  Bult, Abel ^a,c   Lynch, Carol B ^b  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

evolution; Heterosis; Mus domesticus; nest building behavior; selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; HETEROSIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 0029783664     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02359488     Document Type: Article

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