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The ratios between individuals with different signs of motor asymmetry (right-pawed, left-pawed, and ambidextrous) were estimated in two urban populations of striped field mice. Right-pawed mice were prevailing in both populations. An increase in the stress of regulatory system (stress index) in mice from these populations was accompanied by a shift of the asymmetry profile towards a greater proportion of left-pawed mice. The ratio between the numbers of right-pawed and non-right-pawed animals varied with time with a period close to that of the population dynamics. Apparently, the changes in the asymmetry profiles reflected population rearrangement: dominance of animals with a specific set of physiological, ecological, and behavioral characteristics gave way to an increased proportion of animals with a different set of characteristics. Qualitative differences between right- and left-pawed animals are evidenced by the specific characteristics of behavior and humoral immunity found in animals differing in motor lateralization.
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Original Russian Text © L.P. Agulova, A.V. Andreevskikh, N.P. Bol’shakova, L.B. Kravchenko, N.G. Suchkova, N.S. Moskvitina, 2010, published in Ekologiya, 2010, No. 6, pp. 444–451.
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Agulova, L.P., Andreevskikh, A.V., Bol’shakova, N.P. et al. Dynamics of motor asymmetry profiles in striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius pall.) populations. Russ J Ecol 41, 506–512 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106741361006007X
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