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Developmental effects of selective breeding for an infantile trait: the rat pup ultrasonic isolation call.
Developmental psychobiology - 1 Dec 2001
Hofer M A, Shair H N, Masmela J R, Brunelli S A
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This article describes how continued selection for divergent levels of the 10-day-old infant rat's ultrasonic vocal (USV) response to isolation affects the time course of development of that and other possible co-selected traits from 3 to 21 days postnatally. Since selective breeding for an infantile trait has not been reported before, we collected from colleagues a number of predicted outcomes that reflect the...
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