Social isolation partially restores reproduction of male staggerer mutant mice.

doi:10.1016/0031-9384(95)00034-g

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Social isolation partially restores reproduction of male staggerer mutant mice.

Physiology & behavior - 1 Jul 1995

Féron C, Baudoin C

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Social isolation is generally known to promote sexual performances in male mice. We employ here other indices to investigate the positive effects of social isolation on sexual behavior. Mutant staggerer male mice generally do not mate. However some of their reproductive traits can be restored by...

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Animals
Female
Genotype
Male
Mice
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Mice, Neurologic Mutants
Psychophysiology
Reproduction
Sexual Behavior, Animal
Social Isolation

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