To attack, or not to attack? The role of serotonin transporter genotype in the display of maternal aggression

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 135-141

  Heiming, Rebecca S ^a   Mönning, Andrea ^a   Jansen, Friederike ^a   Kloke, Vanessa ^a   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^b   Sachser, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 HTT; 5 HTT knockout mice; Aggression; Maternal aggression; Resident intruder paradigm; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL AGGRESSION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84872593722     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.12.045     Document Type: Article

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