Exploratory behavior correlates with social organization and is responsive to peptide injections in prairie voles

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 807, Issue , 1997, Pages 610-612

  Dharmadhikari, Ashwin ^a   Lee, Yeun S ^a   Roberts, R Lucille ^a   Carter, C Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; VOLE;

ANIMALIA; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MURIDAE;

EID: 0030906126     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb51982.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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