Male Roman high and low avoidance rats show different patterns of copulatory behaviour: Comparison with Sprague Dawley rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 127, Issue , 2014, Pages 27-36

  Sanna, Fabrizio ^a   Corda, Maria Giuseppa ^a   Melis, Maria Rosaria ^a   Piludu, Maria Antonietta ^a   Giorgi, Osvaldo ^a   Argiolas, Antonio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Copulatory behaviour; Roman high avoidance rats; Roman low avoidance rats

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FREEZING; IMPULSIVENESS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTIS WEIGHT;

COPULATORY BEHAVIOUR; ROMAN HIGH AVOIDANCE RATS; ROMAN LOW AVOIDANCE RATS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BODY WEIGHT; COPULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893654174     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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