Studies on Wild House Mice. VII. Prenatal Maternal Environment and Aggression

F Sluyter; J van der Vlugt; G.A van Oortmerssen; J.M. Koolhaas; S.F. de Boer

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Studies on Wild House Mice. VII. Prenatal Maternal Environment and Aggression

F Sluyter, J van der Vlugt, G.A van Oortmerssen, J.M. Koolhaas, S.F. de Boer

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The effect of the maternal environment on intermale aggression was studied by means of embryo transfer of genetically selected aggressive (SAL) and nonaggressive wild house mice (LAL), and their reciprocal F1's, to standard (NMRI) females. No effect was found on the attack latency scores (ALS), i.e., aggression: all genotypes born and raised under natural conditions showed an ALS similar that of genotypes born and raised by NMRI females. Since previous studies on wild house mice failed to demonstrate postnatal effects on aggression, and the present results indicate the absence of prenatal maternal environmental effects on aggression, the primacy of genetic over maternal variance in the development of adult intermale aggression in wild house mice is indicated.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	513 - 518
Number of pages	6
Journal	Behavior Genetics
Volume	26
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02359756
Publication status	Published - Sept-1996
Event	Symposium on Neurobehavioral Genetics of Aggression, at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Behavior-Genetics-Association - , Spain Duration: 1-Jul-1994 → …

Keywords

embryo transfer
Y chromosome
wild house mice
maternal effects
aggression
INTERMALE AGGRESSION
ATTACK LATENCY
Y-CHROMOSOME
MOUSE
STRATEGIES
BEHAVIOR

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