Table 2.
Data from anxiety-like behavior measures.
Elevated plus maze | High-contact offspring (n = 48) | Low-contact offspring (n = 36) | ||
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Mean | SE | Mean | SE | |
Time in center* | 35.35 | 4.64 | 59.92 | 14.27 |
Time in open arms | 111.10 | 14.04 | 103.06 | 19.41 |
Time in closed arms | 125.56 | 14.68 | 142.92 | 16.90 |
Time autogrooming | 14.92 | 6.36 | 21.67 | 6.61 |
Total arm entries | 11.84 | 1.16 | 10.54 | 1.19 |
Proportion of time in open arms | 0.47 | 0.05 | 0.45 | 0.06 |
Open field arena | (n = 47) | (n = 35) | ||
Time in center | 99.76 | 8.55 | 93.74 | 7.60 |
Time in periphery | 493.80 | 8.16 | 503.48 | 7.64 |
Line crossings | 608.21 | 40.46 | 613.14 | 49.69 |
Rearing | 48.80 | 4.08 | 49.51 | 5.72 |
Time autogrooming | 20.31 | 3.89 | 21.08 | 3.80 |
Elevated plus maze, low-contact offspring spent more time in the center of the maze compared to high-contact offspring [F(1, 70) = 4.82, p = 0.03]; Open field arena, groups did not differ in anxiety-like behavior as measured in an open field arena.
Significant difference between groups; p = 0.03.