Ultrasonic vocalizations by infant laboratory mice: A preliminary spectrographic characterization under different conditions

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 249-256

  Branchi, Igor ^a   Santucci, Daniela ^a   Vitale, Augusto ^b   Alleva, Enrico ^c  

^a Sect of Behavioural Pathophysiology   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c Sect of Behavioural Pathophysiology

Author keywords

CD 1 Swiss; Communication; Development; Mus musculus; Rodent; Spectrographic analysis; Ultrasonic vocalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COLD; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MICE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; ODORS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TOUCH; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WEANING;

EID: 0031734797     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199811)33:3<249::AID-DEV5>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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