Radial maze learning in two inbred mouse strains and their reciprocal congenics for the non-pseudoautosomal region of the Y chromosome

Brain Research

Volumn 835, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 68-73

  Sluyter, Frans ^a   Marican, Charlotte C M ^b   Roubertoux, Pierre L ^b   Crusio, W E ^b  

^a Geert Grooteplein N 21 PO B ^*  (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Mossy fiber; Mouse; Radial maze learning; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MOSSY FIBER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, CONGENIC; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, INBRED NZB; MUTATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033578262     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01385-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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