Individual variation in paternal responses of virgin male California mice (Peromyscus californicus): Behavioral and physiological correlates

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 740-751

  de jong, Trynke R ^a   Korosi, Aniko ^b,c   Harris, Breanna N ^a   Perea Rodriguez, Juan Pablo ^a   Saltzman, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BODY MASS; CONSPECIFIC; DOMINANCE; MALE BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL CARE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; GENETICS; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PEROMYSCUS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTOSTERONE;

PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84870173525     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/665831     Document Type: Article

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