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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Language: | en |
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2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3275 |