Species specific behavioural patterns (digging and swimming) and reaction to novel objects in wild type, Wistar, Sprague-Dawley and Brown Norway rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Stryjek, Rafał ^a,b   Modlińska, Klaudia ^b   Pisula, Wojciech ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b Helena Chodkowska University of Management and Law   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGGING; FEMALE; LABORATORY TEST; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WARSAW WILD CAPTIVE PISULA STRYJEK RAT; WILD TYPE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84864004804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040642     Document Type: Article

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