| C | control |
| A20 | groups of intermittently daily aggressive mice during 20 days |
| AD | A20 mice after 14 days of deprivation (no-fight period without agonistic interactions) |
| 5-HT | serotonin |
| 5-HIAA | 5-hydroxyindolacetic acid |
| DA | dopamine |
| DOPAC | 3,4-dihydroxyphenyleacetic acid |
| DEGs | differentially expressed genes |
| FPKM | fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads |
| CAergic | catecholaminergic |
| GABA | γ-aminobutyric acid |
| MRN | midbrain raphe nuclei |
| MSNs | medium spiny neurons |
| NAcc | nucleus accumbens |
| STR | dorsal striatum |
| VTA | ventral tegmental area |