Providing a unique opportunity to reassess the cause and functions of aggression in the House Mouse, this innovative book brings together the results of extensive research into the habits of this species.
The insights gained are of significant relevance to our understanding of the role of intraspecific aggressiveness plays in shaping social structure.
This book is of interest to biologists and psychologists interested in animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, evolution, physiological psychology, psychobiology and psychogenetics. It is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, postgraduates and researchers interested in the subtleties between physiology, behaviour and evolution.
The adaptiveness of house mouse aggression, P.F.Brain; genes, behaviour
and fitness in mice - concepts and confusions, R.J.Berry; the role of
intermale aggression in speciation processes in chromosomal races of house
mice, M.Corti, S.Parmigiani, et al; behavioural analysis of two rodent
species from different ecological habitats, P.Gama Mota; studies in wild
house mice 3 - disruptive selection of aggression as a possible force in
evolution, G.A.von Oortmerssen and J.Busser; aggression in confined
populations, J.H.Mackintosh; recent advances in the study of female
aggressive behaviour in mice, B.Svare; maternal aggression and infanticide in
the house mouse - consequences on the social dynamics, S.Parmigiani;
perinatal testosterone exposure has opposite effects on adult intermale
aggression and infanticide in mice, F.S.vom Saal; psychobiological influences
of attack on lactating females - a variant on "typical" house mouse
aggression, M.Haug and P.F.Brain; effects of positive and negative fighting
experiences on behaviour in adult male mice, M.L.Andrade, K.B.H. Kamal, et
al; physiological consequences of defeat, R.J.Rogers; stress and social
behaviour in the mouse - experimental models for preclinical
psychopharmacology, S.Puglisi-Allegra, S.Cabib, et al; developmental timing
and the microevolution of aggression, R.B.Cairns, J-L.Gariepy; aggressiveness
in mice and thyroid hormones, G.Valenti, M.Mainardi; genetics and the
evolution of social systems, J.P.Scott.
A prolific contributor to literature on the study of aggression, Paul Brain has a B.Sc. and Ph.D in Zoology from the University of Hull, and is currently Reader in Zoology at the University of Wales.
Stefano Parmigiani has degrees in Natural Sciences and Biological Sciences and is the Professor of Biology at the University of Parma.
Danilo Mainardi has degrees in Biological Sciences and Zoology and is Professor of Ethology at the University of Parma.
