The individuality of mice

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 317-327

  Lathe, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Pieta Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavior; Dominance; Endocrine; Genetic; Hierarchy; Individuality; Intrauterine; Knockout; Maternal; Mouse; Mutant; Social; Status; Three site; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FEMALE; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; INDIVIDUALITY; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 9644252997     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2004.00083.x     Document Type: Review

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