Behaviour of house mice artificially selected for high levels of voluntary wheel running

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1307-1318

  Koteja, Paweł ^a,b   Garland Jr , Theodore ^a   Sax, Joanna K ^a   Swallow, John G ^a,d   Carter, Patrick A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; LOCOMOTION; RODENT; SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033403663     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1270     Document Type: Article

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