Foster Dams Rear Fighters: Strain-Specific Effects of Within-Strain Fostering on Aggressive Behavior in Male Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Cox, Kimberly H ^a   So, Nina L T ^a   Rissman, Emilie F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; VASOPRESSIN;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVP GENE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CRH GENE; DBA 2 MOUSE; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MARE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; REARING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PHENOTYPE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 84883797001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075037     Document Type: Article

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