Species differences in paternal behavior and aggression in Peromyscus and their associations with vasopressin immunoreactivity and receptors

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-38

  Bester Meredith, Janet K ^a   Young, Larry J ^b   Marler, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Parental care; Peromyscus; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

VASOPRESSIN; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICETIDAE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032815971     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1999.1522     Document Type: Article

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