Genética del comportamiento del ratón: interacciones con el entorno de laboratorio.

J C Crabbe1, D Wahlsten, B C Dudek

  • 1Portland Alcohol Research Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, OR 97201, USA. crabbe@ohsu.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 5, 1999
PubMed
Resumen

El entorno de laboratorio tiene un impacto significativo en la investigación de genética neuroconductual. Las pruebas estandarizadas en los laboratorios revelaron diferencias sistemáticas, lo que sugiere que los resultados pueden ser específicos del laboratorio, especialmente para la caracterización de mutantes.

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