Male mice selectively bred for aggressiveness (TA) and nonaggressiveness (TNA) were compared on maze performance and passive avoidance behavior The two lines performed the learning tasks in separate ways but the significant differences in performance were probably due to factors other than the brightness of one particular line.
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