Food, friends and foes: estrogens and social behaviour in mice.

This thesis investigates estrogens' modulation of three aspects of social cognition (aggression and agonistic behaviour, social learning, and social recognition). Sex-typical agonistic behaviour (males: overt attacks, females: more subtle dominance behaviours) was increased in gonadectomized m...

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Main Author: Clipperton Allen, Amy Elizabeth
Other Authors: Choleris, Elena
Language:en
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3275