title: Effect of post-weaning social experience with normal females on the behaviour of adult male staggerer mice interacting with normal females.
abstract: Adult male staggerer mice reared under standard conditions display no sexual behaviour. When maintained for a time with normal female mice however 5% of the mutant males were able to copulate. We hypothesized that the effects of such social experience would be revealed most clearly by changes in the pattern of male behaviour. Two groups of mutant males were subjected to different social experience after weaning. One group was maintained with normal female mice and the other with staggerer mutant females. There were differences between the two groups in the frequency, duration and temporal organization of interactions between mutant males and normal females. Social experience with normal females modified male behaviour, producing greater synchrony with female behaviour and a reduction in stereotypic behaviours such as scratching.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Ethologie et Sociobiologie, URA 667 CNRS, Université Paris-Nord, 93430 Villetaneuse, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Feron
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Ethologie et Sociobiologie, URA 667 CNRS, Université Paris-Nord, 93430 Villetaneuse, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baudoin
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Magnusson