Variation in intake of sweet and bitter solutions by inbred strains of golden hamsters

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 465-476

  Frank, Marion E ^a,b   Wada, Yumiko ^c   Makino, Junshiro ^c   Mizutani, Makoto ^d   Umezawa, Hidehiko ^d   Katsuie, Yasutomi ^d   Hettinger, Thomas P ^a,b   Blizard, David A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d NIPPON INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bitter stimuli; Hamsters; Inbred strains; Sweet stimuli; Taste

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; DEXTRO PHENYLALANINE; MALTOSE; PHENYLALANINE; QUININE; SACCHARIN SODIUM; SUCROSE; WATER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAMSTER; HERITABILITY; INBRED STRAIN; ISOMER; MALE; NONHUMAN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWEETNESS; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; CROSS BREEDING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; INBREEDING; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TASTE;

ANIMALIA; CINCHONA PUBESCENS; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CAFFEINE; CRICETINAE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; QUININE; SUCROSE; TASTE;

EID: 3142711878     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BEGE.0000023651.99481.d5     Document Type: Article

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