Behavioral stress response of genetically selected aggressive and nonaggressive wild house mice in the shock-probe/defensive burying test

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 113-116

  Sluyter, Frans ^a   Korte, S Mechiel ^b   Bohus, Bela ^b   Van Oortmerssen, Geert A ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aggression; behavioral strategies; defensive burying; stress; wild house mice

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AVERSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENETIC SELECTION; GROOMING; HEREDITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

EID: 0029882126     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0091-3057(95)02164-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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