Comparison of ultrasonic vocalizations emitted by rodent pups

Experimental Animals

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 409-416

  Hashimoto, Haruo ^a   Moritani, Naoki ^a   Aoki Komori, Shinobu ^a   Tanaka, Minoru ^a   Saito, Toru R ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Power spectra; Rodent pups; Spectrograms; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ANTIPANIC AGENT;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERBIL; HAMSTER; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; RAT; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RODENT; SCREENING TEST; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION; VOLE; WAVEFORM; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SYRIAN HAMSTER; WISTAR RAT;

MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARVICOLINAE; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 16644370611     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.53.409     Document Type: Article

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