Article
Lateral asymmetry of paw usage: phenotypic survey of constitutive and experience-conditioned paw-usage behaviours among common strains of the mouse.
Genome - 1 Aug 2001
Biddle F G, Eales B A
Abstract excerpt
Left-right direction of paw usage in the mouse is defined by the right-paw entry (RPE) score, which is the number of reaches with the right paw to retrieve food from a small food tube in a total of 50 right- and left-paw reaches. Two qualitatively different paw-usage behaviours can be identified by the difference in the RPE scores from naive mice in left- or right-biased test chambers and their retest, 1 week...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
