allogrooming en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈa.lə.ɡɹuː.mɪŋ/ (UK)
Etymology
From allo- + grooming.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The grooming of an animal by another member of the same species.
We also utilize SNA to characterize the agonistic (fighting and chasing) as well as other social (sniffing and allogrooming) behavioral interactions of mice.
2015 July 31, “A Social Network Approach Reveals Associations between Mouse Social Dominance and Brain Gene Expression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: