Journal article
Sexual arousal in male mice: effects of brief periods of isolation or grouping
Abstract
The effects of short periods of postpubertal social isolation on mating in male mice were examined to elucidate behavioral transitions accompanying isolation and mechanisms mediating these transitions. Experiment 1 compared sexual performance of mice isolated or grouped for periods of 1 day or 2 weeks. Isolated males showed more mounts and intromissions and shorter mount and intromission latencies than grouped males at both intervals. This …
Authors
de Catanzaro D; Gorzalka BB
Journal
Behavioral and Neural Biology, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 442–453
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
April 1980
DOI
10.1016/s0163-1047(80)91788-4
ISSN
0163-1047