Maternal aggression: A failure to replicate

Revlis, Russell; Moyer, K. E.

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“…The initial increase in the intensity of aggression across the first 3 lactation periods may be related to improvement in the performance of other maternal behaviors across reproductive cycles. For example, the quality of maternal nest-building and the efficiency of maternal retrieving improve across the first 2 lactation periods (cf., Carlier & Noirot, 1965;Leblond, 1940;Ross, Denenberg, Sawin, & Meyer, 1956). If hormones are indeed involved in the induction of postpartum aggression, the decline in aggression observed on the 5th and 6th lactation period may have been caused by advancing age as manifested in an alteration of the secretory patterns of particular endocrine organs.…”

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“…For the most part, however, these studies have lacked replicability and generality. For example, Endroczi, Lissak, and Telegdy's (1958) finding that frog-killing by rats increased during lactation could not be replicated in a subsequent report by Revlis and Moyer (1969). Flandera and Novakova's (197 1) observation that mouse-killing by rats increased during lactation was reported only in Wistar rats maintained under specific-pathogen-free conditions.…”

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A longitudinal analysis of maternal aggression in Rockland‐Swiss albino mice

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Gandelman

1976

Developmental Psychobiology

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Female Rockland-Swiss albino mice were treated for aggression during 6 successive pregnancies and lactation periods or until they ceased to re-mate. Fighting behavior was limited only to the lactation phase of each reproductive cycle. Although most animals exhibited fighting during every lactation period they completed, some exhibited fighting in some lactation periods but not in others. The intensity of aggression, as measured by the time spent fighting, was highest during the beginning of each lactation period and declined by the end of each period. Moreover, the intensity of aggression increased across the first 3 lactation periods and then declined on later lactation periods to a point below initial levels. Finally, the fighting behavior exhibited by multiparous animals was not due simply to previous fighting experience in that some multiparous mice exhibited postpartum aggression on the 6th lactation period in the absence of fighting experience during earlier lactation periods.

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A longitudinal analysis of maternal aggression in Rockland‐Swiss albino mice

Svare

Gandelman

1976

Developmental Psychobiology

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Maternal Aggression in Mammals

Svare

1981

Parental Care in Mammals

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Correlated characters in selection for aggressiveness in female mice. II. maternal aggressiveness

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Sawyer

1979

Behav Genet

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The present study investigated whether maternal aggression has shown a correlated response in a program of artificial selection for isolation-induced interfemale aggression in housemice. Females from the first replicate of lines (H1, C1, L1) and the second replicate of lines (H2, C2, L2) from generation S5 were given daily aggression tests for 20 consecutive days following the birth of their first litter. Evidence of a correlated response was found for replicate 2, but results for replicate 1 provided no evidence of a correlated response. In generation S10, when better separation of the lines on isolation-induced aggression had occurred, the study was repeated. In S10 there was clear evidence of a correlated response in both of the replicates.

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Maternal aggression: A failure to replicate

Cited by 8 publications

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A longitudinal analysis of maternal aggression in Rockland‐Swiss albino mice

A longitudinal analysis of maternal aggression in Rockland‐Swiss albino mice

Maternal Aggression in Mammals

Correlated characters in selection for aggressiveness in female mice. II. maternal aggressiveness

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