Announcement of the Fulker Award for a Paper Published in Behavior Genetics, Volume 34, 2004.

The article announces the Behavior Genetics Association's presentation of the David Fulker award to Norm Henderson and colleagues for their research "QTL Analysis of Multiple Behavioral Measures of Anxiety in Mice," published in the vol. 34 of the journal "Behavior Genetics". According to the editors, the research explores in detail the use of multiple phenotypic indices of a complex trait. It also gives substantive results in terms of locating the QTL influencing anxiety. The study also demonstrates the effectiveness of genetic mapping to study a behavioral construct, such as anxiety in rodents.