Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2017 Aug 1;7:6991. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07233-5

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2017

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

PMC Copyright notice

Effects of social hierarchy on growth and behaviour. (a) Experimental schedule. The social hierarchy was determined by analysing dyadic agonistic interactions between each combination of two males in the home cage for 2 weeks (when the mice were aged 8–10 weeks). In Experiment 1, all of the animals were used in behavioural tests at age 10–12 weeks (n = 16 cages). (b) Comparison of body weight gains in different hierarchies in group-housed mice (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, dominant versus subordinate). The behaviours of the dominant (Dom) and subordinate (Sub) males were compared. (c–f) Open-field test (OFT) results for (c) the distance travelled, (d) the percentage of time spent in the central area, (e) the rearing frequency, and (f) the stretching frequency. (g and h) Results of the elevated plus-maze (EPM) test, showing (g) the distance travelled and (h) the percentage of time spent in the open arms. (i and j) Results of the forced swim test (FST), showing (i) the immobility time and (j) latency to immobility (^# P < 0.1, **P < 0.01).