Article
[The strategy of submissive behavior in male mice: the effect of the genotype and the experience of preceding agonistic encounters].
Nauchnye doklady vysshei shkoly. Biologicheskie nauki - 1 Jan 1991
Bakshtanovskaia I V, Kudriavtseva N N
Abstract excerpt
The male mice of two strains with experience of 2 or 10 defeats in intermale agonistic confrontations significantly differ in pattern of submissive behavior (balance of upright and sideways defensive postures, withdrawal, freezing, "on the back" posture). In mice with experience of 20 defeats genetic differences have not been found. The acquisition of consequent experience of defeats does not change the pattern...
Topics
- Agonistic Behavior
- Animals
- Genotype
- Hierarchy, Social
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Sex Characteristics