Genetic mapping of variation in spatial learning in the mouse

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2426-2433

  Steinberger, Daniela ^a,b   Reynolds, David S ^c   Ferris, Pushpindar ^c   Lincoln, Rachael ^c   Datta, Susmita ^a   Stanley, Joanna ^c   Paterson, Andrea ^c   Dawson, Gerard R ^c   Flint, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics   (Germany)

^c NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditioned fear; Genetic mapping; Mouse genetics; Quantitative trait locus; Spatial learning; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEAR; FERMENTATION TECHNIQUE; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0037444633     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-06-02426.2003     Document Type: Article

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