An evolutionary approach to behavioral pharmacology: Using drugs to understand proximate and ultimate mechanisms of different forms of aggression in mice

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 143-153

  Parmigiani, Stefano ^a   Francesco Ferrari, Pier ^a   Palanza, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chlordiazepoxide; Defense; Ethopharmacology; Fluprazine; Game theory; Infanticide; Intrasexual aggression; Maternal aggression; Mice; Offense; Predatory attack

Indexed keywords

CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; FLUPRAZINE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COMPETITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; ETHOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FIGHTING; INFANTICIDE; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY;

EID: 0345435963     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(98)00016-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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