Sociosexual behaviors during the transition from non-receptivity to receptivity in rats housed in a seminatural environment

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 24-34

  Chu, Xi ^a   Ågmo, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Behavioral estrus; Rat; Seminatural environment; Sociosexual behavior; Transition

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPULATION; RODENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOGENITAL SNIFFING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ENVIRONMENT; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; LORDOSIS POSTURE; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMINATURAL ENVIRONMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; ENVIRONMENT; ESTROUS CYCLE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84921419577     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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