Different strategies of exploration and phenotypic variability of the locomotor behavior in new environment: Comparative study of the laboratory opossum (Monodelphis domestica) and wistar rat (Rattus norvegicus)

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 452-460

  Klejbor, Ilona ^a   Turlejski, Kris ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anxiety; High active; Locomotor activity; Low active; Open field

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; OPOSSUM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; OPOSSUMS; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84874550924     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 16890035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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