Behavioural and neuroanatomical divergence between two sublines of C57BL/6J inbred mice.

doi:10.1016/s0166-4328(05)80043-9

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Behavioural and neuroanatomical divergence between two sublines of C57BL/6J inbred mice.

Behavioural brain research - 31 Jan 1991

Crusio W E, Schwegler H, van Abeelen J H

Abstract excerpt

Male mice of strains C57BL/6J and DBA/2J differ reproducibly in a number of behaviours displayed in an open-field. In particular, C57BL/6J mice show a higher rearing-up frequency than do DBA/2J animals. Recently, a marked drop occurred in the frequency with which this behaviour is displayed by th...

Topics

Animals
Behavior, Animal
Brain
Defecation
Graft Rejection
Grooming
Hippocampus
Histocompatibility Testing
Male
Mice
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Motor Activity
Phenotype
Skin Transplantation
Species Specificity
Transplantation, Homologous

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