Sweet Success, Bitter Defeat: A Taste Phenotype Predicts Social Status in Selectively Bred Rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Eaton, John M ^a   Dess, Nancy K ^a   Chapman, Clinton D ^a  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; PROTEIN C FOS; SACCHARIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EPIGENETICS; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; HABITUATION; HYPERTHERMIA; IMPULSIVENESS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS; STARTLE REFLEX; SWEETNESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASTE; TASTE PHENOTYPE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEVER; MALE; PHENOTYPE; RATS; SACCHARIN; SKIN; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE;

RATTUS;

EID: 84867042554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046606     Document Type: Article

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