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Early life sleep disruption alters glutamate and dendritic spines in prefrontal cortex and impairs cognitive flexibility in prairie voles

Current Research in Neurobiology, 2021
Early life experiences are crucial for proper organization of excitatory synapses within the brain, with outsized effects on late-maturing, experience-dependent regions such as the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC).
Carolyn E. Jones, Alex Q. Chau, Randall J. Olson, C. Moore, P. Wickham, Niyati Puranik, M. Guizzetti, Hung Cao, C. Meshul, M. Lim   +9 more
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Effects of social and environmental contexts on multi-male mating and mixed paternity in socially monogamous female prairie voles

Royal Society Open Science, 2022
With whom and how often to mate are fundamental questions that impact individual reproductive success and the mating system. Relatively few studies have investigated female mating tactics compared with males.
Marissa A. Rice, Sydney M. Galindez, Joshua T. Garner, Alexander G. Ophir   +3 more
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Male, but not female, oxytocin receptor knockout prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) show impaired consolation behavior.

Hormones and Behavior
Prosocial behaviors, including empathetic consoling toward others, contribute to maintaining social groups and social connections between individuals in many mammalian species, including monogamous prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).
Kengo Horie, Sarah A. Blumenthal, Kiyoshi Inoue, Saori Yada, Katsuhiko Nishimori, L. J. Young   +5 more
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Support for the parental practice hypothesis: subadult prairie voles exhibit similar behavioral and neural profiles when alloparenting kin and non-kin

Behavioural Brain Research, 2021
Parental care is critical for offspring survival in altricial species. Although parents are the most common caregivers, other individuals (e.g., older siblings) can also provide alloparental care.
Caitlyn J. Finton, Aubrey M. Kelly, A. Ophir   +2 more
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Differential responses of prairie rodents to edge effects from recreational trails [PDF]

Nature Conservation, 2020
Edge effects are a common phenomenon in which an ecological variable changes with respect to distance from a habitat edge. Recreational trails may constitute a habitat edge for prairie rodents because of high human presence, high predator presence, or ...
Cameron M. Shorb, Laur A. Freymiller, Daniel L. Hernandez   +2 more
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Medial amygdala ERα expression influences monogamous behaviour of male prairie voles in the field

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2021
Formation of long-term pair-bonds is a complex process, involving multiple neural circuits and is context- and experience-dependent. While laboratory studies using prairie voles have identified the involvement of several neural mechanisms, efforts to ...
Connor T. Lambert, James B. Lichter, Adam N. Perry, Samuel A. Castillo, B. Keane, B. Cushing, N. Solomon   +6 more
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The central oxytocinergic system of the prairie vole

Brain Structure and Function
AbstractOxytocin (OXT) is a peptide hormone and a neuropeptide that regulates various peripheral physiological processes and modulates behavioral responses in the central nervous system. While the humoral release occurs from the axons arriving at the median eminence, the neuropeptide is also released from oxytocinergic cell axons in various brain ...
E. N. Ramos, G. M. Jiron, J. S. Danoff, Z. Anderson, C. S. Carter, A. M. Perkeybile, J. J. Connelly, A. Erisir   +7 more
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The effect of watering on a prairie vole population [PDF]

Acta Theriologica, 1982
Wyjsciową hipotezą pracy bylo, ze brak wody per se lub wody jako stymulatora wzrostu roślinności jest powodem spadku rozrodu w populacji M. ochrogaster w ciągu lata. Badania prowadzono od 21 maja do 16 października 1979 r., na trzech ogrodzonych powierzchniach, po 0,81 ha kazda. Jedna z nich byla nawadniana przez 8 deszczowni, druga zaopatrywana w wode
Abdellatif, E. M., Armitage, K. B., Gaines, M. S., Johnson, M. L.   +3 more
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How to Study Socially Monogamous Behavior in Secretive Animals? Using Social Network Analyses and Automated Tracking Systems to Study the Social Behavior of Prairie Voles

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018
Accurately recording the social and mating behavior of wild animals is necessary to test hypotheses regarding the evolution of monogamous behavior but documenting the behavior of most wild animals is challenging.
Anne C. Sabol, Nancy G. Solomon, Ben Dantzer, Ben Dantzer   +3 more
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FireMaster® 550 (FM 550) exposure during the perinatal period impacts partner preference behavior and nucleus accumbens core medium spiny neuron electrophysiology in adult male and female prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster

Hormones and Behavior, 2021
One of the most widely used flame retardant (FR) mixtures in household products is Firemaster 550 (FM 550). FM 550 leaches from items such as foam-based furniture and infant products, resulting in contamination of the household environment and biota ...
Amanda A. Krentzel, Laney C Kimble, David M. Dorris, Brian M Horman, John Meitzen, H. Patisaul   +5 more
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