Multi-Center Trial of a Standardized Battery of Tests of Mouse Behavior

A project funded by the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research via the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

This web site reports the status of a MultiCenter research effort on behavioral profiles of genetically defined stocks of mice. The study coordinated a standardized behavioral test battery at three separate laboratory sites in mice bred in house or shipped in from commercial sources.

Two sets of web pages are available at this web site. The first is information supplementing a paper published in SCIENCE. (Crabbe, JC, Wahlsten, D., and Dudek, BC. Genetics of Mouse Behavior: Interactions with Laboratory Environment. SCIENCE, 284: 1670-1674, June 4, 1999). The reader will find a presentation of several pages of descriptive information on the origin of the studies and its goals, as well as the publicly available data set and results in graph form. This section also includes detailed protocols for the study and images of test apparatus. The second set of pages consist of an older version of the web site, and including the files for sharing among the participants in the study.

General Public Information on the Research Program, including supplemental information for the Science Paper.

Older web site on the project, including files to be shared among the participants.

These pages are made available via the University at Albany Psychology Department Web Site.
Direct questions to Bruce Dudek at bcd80@albany.edu.