Stability and potential inheritance of infanticidal behavior in prairie voles

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 825-832

  Olazábal, Daniel E ^a,b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experience; Infanticidal; Maternal; Microtus ochrogaster; Selective breeding

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERIUM;

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MURIDAE;

EID: 78649698625     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20478     Document Type: Article

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