Functional relationships between genotypes and environments in behavior. Effects of different kinds of early social experience on interstrain fighting in male mice.

Abstract excerpt

Comparisons are made of the interstrain fighting behavior of adult male mice from two inbred strains (ST-albino; CBA-black-agouti), raised in one of three postweaning social situations: 1) isolated from other males, 2) reared with males of the same strains, or 3) reared with males of the opposite strain. Using the fighting behavior of isolated males as a baseline, it is found that each type of early social...

Topics

• Aggression
• Agonistic Behavior
• Animals
• Behavior, Animal
• Genotype
• Humans
• Male
• Mice
• Mice, Inbred CBA
• Mice, Inbred Strains
• Phenotype
• Social Environment