Comparing albino and hooded Wistar rats of both sexes on a range of behavioral and learning tasks

Psychobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 339-359

  Boakes, R A ^a   Boot, B ^a   Clarke, J V ^a   Carver, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASTE PREFERENCE;

EID: 0033748302     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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