Delineation of violence from functional aggression in mice: An ethological approach

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-90

  Natarajan, Deepa ^a   De Vries, Han ^b   Saaltink, Dirk Jan ^c   De Boer, Sietse F ^a   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Functional aggression; Genetic selection; LAL; Mouse models; NC900; Psychopathology; SAL; TA; Violence

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; ETHOLOGY; GENETIC SELECTION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; THREAT; VIOLENCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENT; ETHOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MICE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIOLENCE;

MUS;

EID: 57849159701     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-008-9230-3     Document Type: Article

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