Tube Dominance Test
Manufacturer: Ugobasile
Product code: 4010
The Tube Dominance test is a simple behavioral assay to assess social hierarchy and social dominance in rodents. The Tube Dominance Test is commonly employed in laboratory settings to study social behavior and interactions in a controlled environment. It can be used with or without food rewards to incentivize the animals to move through the tube. In the simple version, without rewards, two animals are placed at the extremities of a plastic tube and the animals will interact at the center of the tube with one of the two showing aggressive behavior and force its opponent out of the tube.
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Description
Tube Dominance Test
Background
- Rodent social behavior is a growing-interest field, especially because in the last decades most of the experiments have been run in isolated animals, and still are, in spite of the fact that mice and rats are social creatures.
- Rodents show a wide range of social behaviors from maternal care to sexual behavior, attachment, learning, dominance and altruism.
- The tube-dominance apparatus was developed by G.Lindzey (Lindzey et al., 1961). It involved placing hungry mice in each end of a narrow cylindrical tube which the mice have been trained to run in order. The two mice are started in the tube so that they meet at the center and the dominant mouse is the one that forces the other to retreat from the tube.
The Ugo Basile Tube Dominance Apparatus comes complete with 2 starting boxes dimensioned 150×150 mm and made of transparent Perspex. Different configurations for tubes and doors, magnetically attached to the starting boxes, are available to complete the Tube Dominance Apparatus. For details see ordering information.
| Physical | ||
|---|---|---|
| Starting Box | 150(d)x150(w)x150(h)mm | |
| Tubes | 160 mm long, 30 mm ID | |
| 300 mm in length, fixed to a rectangular base of 150 mm width | ||
| 600 mm in length, fixed to a rectangular base of 150 mm width | ||
| Warranty | ||
| Warranty | The Tube Dominance Test is covered by a 12-month warranty + 12 after product registration | |
