Aggression in wild house mice: Current state of affairs

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 489-496

  Sluyter, Frans ^a   Van Oortmerssen, Geert A ^b   De Ruiter, A J H ^b   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggression; maternal environment; testosterone; wild house mice; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; Y CHROMOSOME;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TESTOSTERONE; VARIATION (GENETICS); Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0029859032     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02359753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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