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- - The study explores social cooperation in mice, which is crucial for group behaviors but often overlooked due to their aggressive nature.
- - A new water-reward assay was developed to study mutualistic cooperative behavior in mice, detailing the setup and methodology for researchers.
- - This validated protocol allows investigators to analyze and quantify cooperation in mice, with references provided for further details on the execution.
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Social cooperation is fundamentally important for group animals but rarely studied in mice because of their natural aggressiveness. Here, we present a new water-reward assay to investigate mutualistic cooperative behavior in mice. We describe the construction of the apparatus and provide details of the procedures and analysis for investigators to characterize and quantify the mutualistic cooperative behavior. This protocol has been validated in mice and can be used for investigating mechanisms of cooperation. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Zhang et al. and Wang et al..
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