Appetitive operant conditioning in mice: Heritability and dissociability of training stages

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Malkki, Hemi A I ^a   Donga, Laura A B ^a   Groot, Sabine E ^a   Battaglia, Francesco P ^a   Consortium, NeuroBSIK Mouse Phenomics ^a   Pennartz, Cyriel M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Appetitive conditioning; Behavioral screening; BxD; Complex trait analysis; Instrumental conditioning; QTL mapping; Recombinantinbred mice

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053051136     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00171     Document Type: Article

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