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Automated, Quantitative Cognitive/Behavioral Screening of Mice: For Genetics, Pharmacology, Animal Cognition and Undergraduate Instruction
Published on: February 26, 2014
[Genetics of mouse-hole]
1CoReBio PACA, case 901, parc Scientifique de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France. bertrand.jordan@univ-amu.fr
Abstract:
The Oldfield mouse and the Deer mouse build very different burrows in nature and also in the laboratory. This behaviour is innate and, in a series of beautiful experiments making use of new generation sequencing for genetic mapping, the authors map the burrow architecture to a very small number of loci and demonstrate modular evolution of behaviour.

