Importance of gender for the display of social impairment in pairbond disrupted gerbils

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 273-277

  Starkey, N J ^a   Hendrie, C A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Gerbils; Pairbond disruption; Sex differences; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERBIL; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 0032442765     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(98)00028-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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