@article{ref1,
title="Ovariectomy attenuates aggression by female rats cohabiting with sexually active sterile males",
journal="Physiology and behavior",
year="1989",
author="Albert, D. J. and Petrovic, D. M. and Walsh, M. L.",
volume="45",
number="2",
pages="225-228",
abstract="Female rats were individually housed with a single castrated male with a testosterone implant that maintained sexual and aggressive behavior. At weekly intervals, the resident male was removed and an unfamiliar female intruder was introduced into the colony. Attacks, bites, on-top, and piloerection of the resident female toward the intruder were scored. Females whose level of aggression toward the intruder was substantial and stable were either ovariectomized or sham-ovariectomized. Aggression tests resumed 1 week postoperatively and continued for an additional 3 weeks. The results confirm that female cohabiting with a sterile male become aggressive. They also demonstrate that ovariectomy greatly attenuates but does not entirely abolish aggression toward an unfamiliar female intruder. The results appear to contribute to a growing body of evidence suggesting that the biological substrate and behavioral form of aggression by females housed with males (including that following parturition) is a hormone-dependent aggression which parallels testosterone-dependent social aggression of males housed with females.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0031-9384",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}