Ra. Hensbroek et al., Y-CHROMOSOMAL EFFECTS ON HIPPOCAMPAL MOSSY FIBER DISTRIBUTIONS IN MICE SELECTED FOR AGGRESSION, Brain research, 682(1-2), 1995, pp. 203-206
The influence of the non-pseudoautosomal region of the Y chromosome (Y
-NPAR) On the sizes of the hippocampal intra- and infrapyramidal messy
fiber (IIPMF) terminal fields was examined in wild house mice. For th
is purpose selection lines for short attack latency (SAL), long attack
latency (LAL), and their respective congenics for the Y-NPAR were use
d. We found an incremental effect of the (non-aggressive) LAL Y-NPAR,
combined with an additive effect of the line background on the sizes o
f the IIPMF terminal fields. In contrast, only the line background aff
ected attack latency. The implications of this finding for the previou
sly observed correlation between the size of the IIPMF and aggression
in male house mice are discussed.