Ebook available in the catalog titled What’s Wrong with my Mouse? by Crawley

Books in electronic form are increasingly available and the UT Libraries are ordering and adding them to the catalog selectively.

The second edition of What’s Wrong with My Mouse by Crawley was added recently in electronic form
so that it will be available to anyone who needs it on campus.

From the table of contents:
Contents: Designer mice : scope and sourcebooks — Of unicorns and chimeras : how to generate a transgenic or knockout mouse for behavioral phenotyping — General health : give your mouse a physical — Motor functions : open field, holeboard, rotarod, balance, grip, circadian activity, circling, stereotypy, ataxic gait, seizures — Sensory abilities : olfaction, vision, hearing, taste, touch, nociception — Learning and memory : Morris swim task, spatial mazes, cued and contextual conditioning, conditioned taste aversion, conditioned eyeblink, olfactory discrimination, social recognition, passive avoidance, schedule controlled operant tasks, motor learning, attention — Feeding and drinking : daily consumption, restricted access, choice tests, microstructural analysis — Reproductive behaviors : sexual and parental behaviors — Social behaviors : social interaction, nesting, grooming, juvenile play, aggression — Emotional behaviors : animal models of psychiatric disorders : mouse models of fear, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia — Reward : self-administration of addictive drugs, conditioned place preference — Neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration : assaying behaviours in infant, juvenile, and aged mice — Putting it all together : choice of tests, order of testing, number of mice, equipment, housing and testing environment — The next generation : conditional and inducible mutations, viral vector gene delivery, RNA silencing, quantitative trait loci analysis, DNA microarrays, chemical mutagenesis, gene therapy, ethical issues