Genetic influences on coping behaviour in house mouse lines selected for aggression: Effects of the Y chromosome

Behaviour

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 117-128

  Sluyter, Frans ^a   Van Oortmerssen, Geert A ^b   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING BEHAVIOUR; HOUSE MOUSE; Y CHROMOSOME;

MUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 0030430831     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853996X00062     Document Type: Article

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