Cross-fostering of DBA and C57Bl mice. Increase in voluntary consumption of alcohol by DBA weanlings.
Weanling mice of the alcohol-avoiding DBA strain cross-fostered to mothers of the alcohol-selecting C57Bl strain drank twice as much alcohol as did nonfostered DBA mice. In contrast, C57Bl mice cross-fostered to DBA mothers drank the same amount of alcohol as did nonfostered C57Bl mice. Differences in maternal behavior seem to be responsible for differences in alcohol selection by weanlings.
D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005260:Female; D005824:Genetics, Behavioral; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL / Q000502:physiology*; D008811:Mice, Inbred DBA / Q000502:physiology*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014886:Weaning