BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION

34^th Annual Meeting

Aix en Provence, France

June 27-30, 2004

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Abstracts are to be submitted by email and will be confirmed through an email reply. In contrast to previous years, send the abstract submission as an attached Word document with the title, “BGA (submitter’s initials)” to mcarlier@up.univ-aix.fr. Email abstracts must be received by March 15, 2004. We urge all members to use email submission, but if that is not possible, we will accept a faxed or mailed version that follows the identical format used for email submissions. Mailed or faxed submissions must be received one month early (February 15, 2004). Mailed abstracts should be sent to: Dr. Michèle Carlier,

Centre de Recherche PsyCLE, Universite de Provence, 29 Avenue Robert Schuman, Aix en Provence 13621 FRANCE, fax 04‑42‑38‑91‑70.

It is important to follow the instructions exactly. Please check your submission carefully before sending it. The abstract should be sent as a Word document attachment with the title, “BGA (submitter’s initials)” to mcarlier@up.univ-aix.fr.

Every abstract must have exactly the same eight sections. Every section begins with a word set in all upper case characters and ending with a colon and appear on a separate line. The section names are shown here exactly as they must appear in your emailed abstract:

AUTHOR:

TITLE:

AFFILIATION AND NOTES:

MAIL:

ABSTRACT:

STATUS:

THOMPSON:

PRESENTATION PREFERENCE:

Information is to be added to lines in between these field names. An example of an abstract submission that explains the meanings of the sections is enclosed. Please refer to it before sending your abstract.

If you have questions about formatting contact Dr. Michèle Carlier, mcarlier@up.univ-aix.fr.

The following example abstract submission explains the meanings of the sections.

AUTHOR:

Use first name, middle initial, last name followed by superscript. Separate authors by commas.

Joseph P. Hegmann¹ and J. C. DeFries²

TITLE:

Drug and alcohol consumption in 5 million twin pairs³

AFFILIATION AND NOTES:

Place the department, university and city/state/country of all authors here, as well as grant support.

¹Department of Zoology, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA

²Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder CO

³Supported by NIH Grant GM-12486. We thank our many students for doing all the work

MAIL:

Place the mailing address of the first author here and include phone and fax numbers and email address separated by spaces. Web URL can also go here.

Institute for Behavioral Genetics Campus Box 447 University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309

Phone: 303 492 7363 Fax: 303 492 8063 Email: Joseph.Hegmann@Colorado.edu

ABSTRACT:

Type the full abstract in this section. It should not exceed 300 words, including references. Be sure to include full citations (with the exception of the title of the article) for any references, using the format shown in the example abstract which follows. (Citations are required by the publisher of Behavior Genetics.)

As seen previously in our 30-generation selection study of open field activity (J. C. DeFries, M. C. Gervais, and E. A. Thomas, 1978, Behav. Genet. 8, 3-13), ¼ ¼ supporting Fulker's hypothesis (D. W. Fulker, 1978, in J. R. Royce and L. P. Mos, eds., Theoretical Advances in Behavioral Genetics, Sijthoff & Noordhoff, Alpen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands).

STATUS:

Enter here the membership status of the first author: (regular, associate, non-member who is joint author with a member, or non-member sponsored by __member_name_here__ )

THOMPSON:

Simply enter Yes or No on this line in answer to the question "Is this paper eligible for the Thompson Award?"

PRESENTATION PREFERENCE:

Place either the word "Oral" or the word "Poster" or the word "Symposium" to indicate which type of presentation you prefer to give.