Social experience during development and female offspring aggression in Peromyscus mice

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 889-900

  Bester Meredith, Janet K ^a,b   Marler, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; RODENT;

MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 34547969369     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01393.x     Document Type: Article

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