Genetic selection for avoidance behavior in the rat
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Behavior Genetics
- Vol. 9 (4), 309-316
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01068209
Abstract
Long-Evans rats were selectively bred for over 20 generations using two behavioral criteria: (1) limited responding to the warning signal during ten pretest trials and (2) either good or poor avoidance behavior during 60 avoidance training trials in a two-way shuttlebox. The results suggest that avoidance behavior in the rat is a heritable characteristic that may be selected independently of activity level.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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