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Ultrasonic vocalizations: a tool for behavioural phenotyping of mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews - 1 Apr 2009
Scattoni Maria Luisa, Crawley Jacqueline, Ricceri Laura
Abstract excerpt
In neonatal mice ultrasonic vocalizations have been studied both as an early communicative behaviour of the pup-mother dyad and as a sign of an aversive affective state. Adult mice of both sexes produce complex ultrasonic vocalization patterns in different experimental/social contexts. Vocalizations are becoming an increasingly valuable assay for behavioural phenotyping throughout the mouse life-span and...
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