Sexual aggression in mice: Effects of male strain and of female estrous state

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 521-528

  Canastar, Andrew ^a,b   Maxson, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diestrus; Estrus; Mice; Sexual aggression; Strain difference

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATING; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141989741     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025722700138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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