Paternal responsiveness is associated with, but not mediated by reduced neophobia in male California mice (Peromyscus californicus)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-75

  Chauke, Miyetani ^a   de Jong, Trynke R ^a,b   Garland, Theodore ^a   Saltzman, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Biparental; CRH; Neophobia; Paternal behavior; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; BRAIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; ODORS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PEROMYSCUS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEPTAL NUCLEI; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URINE;

EID: 84862606659     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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