Effects of prenatal stress on behaviour of offspring of laboratory and farmed mammals

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-180

  Braastad, Bjarne O ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Gestational stress; HPA axis; Ontogeny; Problem behavior; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032576538     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(98)00188-9     Document Type: Article

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