Weak winner effect in a less aggressive mammal: Correlations with corticosterone but not testosterone

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-179

  Oyegbile, Temitayo O ^a   Marler, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenge effect; Corticosterone; Defensive aggression; Mammal; Offensive aggression; Peromyscus leucopus; Rodent; Testosterone; Winner effect

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERRITORIALITY; TRAINING;

EID: 33747370079     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.05.044     Document Type: Article

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