Specialization in building tasks in the mound-building mouse, Mus spicilegus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1153-1160

  Hurtado, Maria José ^a   Fénéron, Renée ^a   Gouat, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Building task; Division of labour; Mound building mouse; Mus spicilegus; Specialization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; RODENT; SPECIALIZATION;

MUS; MUS SPICILEGUS;

EID: 84879250629     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.03.020     Document Type: Article

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