Genetic dissection of intermale aggressive behavior in BALB/cJ and A/J mice

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-68

  Dow, H C ^a   Kreibich, A S ^a   Kaercher, K A ^a   Sankoorikal, G M V ^a   Pauley, E D ^a   Lohoff, F W ^a   Ferraro, T N ^a   Li, H ^a   Brodkin, E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Association; Behavior; Genetics; Genome scan; Linkage; Mouse

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 5; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISSECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; INBRED STRAIN; INTERMALE AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 78751684166     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2010.00640.x     Document Type: Article

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