?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Genetic+dissection+of+mouse+exploratory+behaviour&rft.creator=Crusio%2C+Wim+E.&rft.subject=Behavioral+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Animal+Behavior&rft.subject=Psychobiology&rft.description=A+large+variety+of+apparatus+and+procedures+are+being+employed+to+measure+mouse+exploratory+behaviour.+Definitions+of+what+constitutes+exploration+also+vary+widely.+The+present+article+reviews+two+studies%2C+whose+results+permet+a+genetic+dissection+of+behaviour+displayed+in+an+open-field+situation.+The+results+agree+that+factors+representing+exploration+and+stress%2Ffear+underly+this+type+of+behaviour.+Both+factors+appear+to+be+linked+to+neuroanatomical+variation+in+the+sizes+of+the+hippocampal+intra-+and+infrapyramidal+mossy+fiber+terminal+fields.+Multivariate+analysis+of+genetic+correlations+may+render+inmportant+insights+into+the+structure+of+behaviour+and+its+relations+with+neuroanatomical+and+neurophysiological+systems.&rft.publisher=Elsevier+Science&rft.date=2001&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1671%2F1%2FOF2000.htm&rft.identifier=++Crusio%2C+Wim+E.++(2001)+Genetic+dissection+of+mouse+exploratory+behaviour.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1671%2F