title: Description des données d'observation continue du comportement par une technique d'analyse de textes. 2. Comparaisons des conduites maternelles dans trois souches de souris.
abstract: This study illustrates the use of multifactorial analysis to perform comparisons between different genotypic groups, based on behavioral profiles. Maternal behaviour of C57BL/6 mice and of two reciprocal F2 was precisely described by continous observation. Unpolished data were directly analysed by a textual analysis technique using correspondences analysis. Strains were clearly different according to the relative frequencies of the different acts. These differences seemed to be related to grand-maternal effects, as previously shown in the same strains. Pups age related variation between day 2 and day 6 was very low when compared to maternal styles of the three strains.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'éthologie et de psychophysiologie, Facultédes Sciences, Tours, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Le Pape
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chevalet