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Emotional reactivity in mice, a case of nongenetic heredity?
Physiology & behavior - 1 Oct 2001
Calatayud F, Belzung C
Abstract excerpt
Nongenetic heredity cases have been described in man, as well as in animals, and relationships between parents and offspring seem to play an important role in this transmission. In mice, mothering type could be nongenetically heritable by a latent learning close to mechanism. As mothering style clearly influences emotional reactivity, this reactivity could be nongenetically transmitted over generations. To...
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