Interactions between Parents and Parents and Pups in the Monogamous California Mouse (Peromyscus californicus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Rosenfeld, Cheryl S ^a   Johnson, Sarah A ^a   Ellersieck, Mark R ^a   Roberts, R Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; FEMALE; GROOMING; LACTATION; LICKING; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MONOGAMY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROGENY; PUP (RODENT); SNIFFING; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84884360203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075725     Document Type: Article

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