Agonistic behavior

In animal species commonly used in laboratory research, social aggregation and dispersion are achieved by agonistic behavior patterns with various acts, postures, movements, and signals. Confrontations between a territorial resident and an intmder, between a dominant and lower-ranking group member, between rival males or females, between a lactating female and a... 

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Winslow, J.T., and Miczek, K.A. Naltrexone blocks amphetamine-induced hyperactivity, but not disruption of social and agonistic behavior in mice and squirrel monkeys. Psychopharmacology 95 92-98, 1988. 

Delville Y., De Vries G.J. and Ferris C.F. (2000). Neural connections of the anterior hypothalamus and agonistic behavior in golden hamsters. Brain Behav Evol 55, 53-76. 

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Andren, C. (1986) Courtship, mating and agonistic behavior in the free-living population of adders, Vipera berus (L.). Amphibia-Reptilia 7, 353-383. 

Kollack-Walker, S. and Newman, S. (1995) Mating and agonistic behavior produce different patterns of Fos immunolabeling in male Syrian hamster brain. Neuroscience 66, 721-36. 

Luiten, P., Koolhaas, J., de Boer, S. and Koopmans, S. (1985) The cortico-medial amygdala in the central nervous system organization of agonistic behavior. Brain Res. 332, 283-297. 

Positive social behaviors, including gregariousness and the formation of social bonds, are less frequently studied than reproductive and agonistic behaviors, but are critical for primate reproduction. Agonistic behavioral traits associated with androgen exposure may be in conflict with social behaviors needed for courtship, the formation of social bonds and subsequent parental behavior. Higher levels of male sociality are probably nec-... 

Ferris, C. F., and Delville, Y. 1994. Vasopressin and serotonin interactions in the control of agonistic behavior. Psychoneuroendocrinology 19 593-602. 

Yoshimura H, Watanabe K, Ogawa N. (1988a). Psychotropic effects of ginseng saponins on agonistic behavior between resident and intruder mice. Eur J Pharmacol. 146(2-3) 291-97. 

Mammals may become familiarized with one another by body odors, without having direct contact. For instance, Columbian ground squirrels, S. columbianus, show more-cohesive and less-agonistic behaviors toward unfamiliar non-colony members if they had experienced the odor of these individuals in traps that had been used in both colonies (Hare, 1994). 

Bean, N. J. (1982). Modulation of agonistic behavior by the dual olfactory system in male mice. Physiology and Behavior 29,433-437. 

Borea PA, Varani K, Dalpiaz A, Capuzzo A, Fabbri E, IJzerman AP (1994) Full and partial agonistic behavior and thermodynamic binding parameters of adenosine A3 receptor ligands. Eur J Pharmacol 267(1) 55-61... 

Mineur, Y. S., Prasol, D. J., Belzung, C. and Crusio, W. E. (2003) Agonistic behavior and unpredictable chronic mild stress in mice. Behav Genet 33, 513-519. 

Delphia, C.M., Copren, K. A. and Haverty, M.I. (2003). Agonistic behavior between individual worker termites from three cuticular hydrocarbon phenotypes of Reticulitermes (Isoptera Rhinotermitidae) from northern California. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am., 96 585-593. 

Moore PA (2007) Agonistic behavior in freshwater crayfish the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on aggressive behavior and dominance. In Duffy JE, Thiel M, Duffy JE, Thiel M (eds) Evolutionary ecology of social and sexual systems Crustacea as models organisms. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 90-114... 

Dingle H (1983) Strategies of agonistic behavior in Crustacea. In Rebach S, Dunham DW (eds) Studies in adaptation the behavior of higher Crustacea. New York, Wiley, pp 85-111... 

Huber R, Kravitz EA (1995) A quantitative analysis of agonistic behavior in juvenile American lobsters (Homarus americanus L.). Brain Behav Evol 46 72-83... 

Bergman DA, Moore PA (2003) Field observations of intraspecific agonistic behavior of two crayfish species, Orconectes rusticus and Orconectes virilis, in different habitats. Biol Bull 205 26-35... 

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