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A selective genetic analysis of the Syracuse high- and low-avoidance (SHA/Bru and SLA/Bru) strains of rats (Rattus norvegicus).
Behavioural brain research - 1 Dec 1999
Brush F R, Gendron C M, Isaacson M D
Abstract excerpt
Selective breeding of Long-Evans rats for good and poor avoidance learning in a two-way shuttle box resulted in the Syracuse strains that differ markedly in the selected phenotypes. These phenotypes have many associated traits, five of which are studied here: emotionality (open-field defecation), Pavlovian fear conditioning (CER suppression), passive avoidance training (punishment), size (weight) of the adrenal...
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