Individual variation in aggression of feral rodent strains: a standard for the genetics of aggression and violence?

doi:10.1023/a:1025766415159

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Individual variation in aggression of feral rodent strains: a standard for the genetics of aggression and violence?

Behavior genetics - 1 Sept 2003

de Boer Sietse F, van der Vegt Bea J, Koolhaas Jaap M

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This article summarizes the broad individual differences in aggressiveness and its relationship with several other behavioral, physiological, and neurobiological characteristics that exist in an outbred laboratory strain of male feral rats. Based on the observations that the individual level of offensive aggressive behavior (i.e., the tendency to defend the home territory) is strongly related to the way they...

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Aggression
Animals
Animals, Wild
Catecholamines
Corticosterone
Female
Genetic Variation
Housing, Animal
Male
Rats
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PMID: 14574126
DOI: 10.1023/a:1025766415159

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