Within-litter variance in rat maternal behaviour

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 696-704

  Cavigelli, Sonia A ^a   Ragan, Christina M ^a   Barrett, Catherine E ^a   Michael, Kerry C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mother neonate interactions; Neonatal experience; Rodent; Sprague Dawley rats; Within clutch variance

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL CARE; RODENT; SIBLING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LICKING; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROGENY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; LINEAR MODELS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77953916614     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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