The effect of early experience on MHC-based mate preferences in two B10.W strains of mice (Mus domesticus)

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-229

  Eklund, Amy ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

C57BL 10Sn.CHR51; C57BL 10Sn.GAA37; Experience; Genetics; House mice; Kin recognition; Major histocompatibility complex (MHC); Mating preference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; REARING; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 0030976289     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025658013443     Document Type: Article

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