Short CommunicationsMale urinary cues stimulate intra-sexual aggression and urine-marking in wild female mice, Mus musculus domesticus
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Impact of male presence on female sociality and stress endocrinology in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus)
2018, Physiology and BehaviorCitation Excerpt :Thereby, females display preferences for specific cooperation partners, yielding significant fitness benefits [40]. At the same time, however, group living females may compete over access to males [15,41], especially due to the importance of genetic benefits of mate choice [42–44]. To understand the role of female intra-sexual competition for establishing social associations, we experimentally investigated the impact of male presence on female stress physiology and sociality in wild-derived house mice.
How does sex matter? Behavior, stress and animal models of neurobehavioral disorders
2017, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral ReviewsCitation Excerpt :Female mice, however, show very low or no aggression when grouped together (except during periparturition stages), and do not develop a detectable social structure. When individually housed and non-reproductively active, female mice do not show territory defence towards conspecific intruders (Palanza et al., 1994, 2005). Based on their behavioral profiles when challenged to explore a novel environment and taking into consideration these sex differences in social behavior, these findings suggest that for female mice, being housed alone for a short period may be a mild stressor, while this is not true for males.
Defeat stress in rodents: From behavior to molecules
2015, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral ReviewsCitation Excerpt :However, female retired breeder California mice do show aggressive behavior when a young female is introduced in the cage (Trainor et al., 2011). Likewise, female mice do show competitive behavior and aggression toward other females in the presence of a dominant or territorial male (Palanza et al., 1994, 2001, 2005; Palanza, 2001; Stockley et al., 2013). Most studies however use lactating dams as residents when testing female intruders (Haney et al., 1995; Holly et al., 2012).
Clustered environmental enrichments induce more aggression and stereotypic behaviour than do dispersed enrichments in female mice
2011, Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceCitation Excerpt :Perhaps even more practically useful is that our data now suggest ways of mitigating unwanted aggressive behaviours in male mice. It is primarily male mice that fight over territories and social rank (Jennings et al., 1998; Palanza et al., 1994), and they can exhibit severe aggression when caged together (e.g. Van Loo et al., 2003), especially when provided with enrichments (e.g. see Howerton et al., 2008 on adding running wheels to cages of group-housed male CD-1 mice). Using females as our first model allowed us to conduct preliminary tests of our hypotheses without fear of morbidity, mortality or having to terminate the study due to excessive aggression.
Individual housing of mice - Impact on behaviour and stress responses
2009, Physiology and Behavior