"Personality" in laboratory mice used for biomedical research: A way of understanding variability?

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 624-630

  Lewejohann, Lars ^a   Zipser, Benjamin ^a   Sachser, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Epigenetics; Inbred mice; Standardization; Variation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PERSONALITY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 80051874045     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20553     Document Type: Article

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