Social status and day-to-day behaviour of male serotonin transporter knockout mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 220-228

  Lewejohann, Lars ^a   Kloke, Vanessa ^a   Heiming, Rebecca S ^a   Jansen, Friederike ^a   Kaiser, Sylvia ^a   Schmitt, Angelika ^b   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^b   Sachser, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 HTT; Anxiety; Dominance; Emigration; Mice; Spontaneous behaviour

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; GENOTYPE; GROOMING; HETEROZYGOSITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77952420169     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.03.035     Document Type: Article

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