ArticleAnimal behaviour2011
avpr1a length polymorphism is not associated with either social or genetic monogamy in free-living prairie voles.
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- Sex differences in the reward value of familiar mates in prairie voles.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2022Article
- Medial amygdala ERα expression influences monogamous behaviour of male prairie voles in the field.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- A Neuroscientist's Guide to the Vole.Current protocols · 2021Article
- The Biology of Vasopressin.Biomedicines · 2021Review
- Stress in groups: Lessons from non-traditional rodent species and housing models.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Review
- Sociability and pair-bonding in gerbils: a comparative experimental study.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Individual Variation in Social Behaviours of Male Lab-reared Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) is Non-heritable and Weakly Associated with V1aR Density.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Stabilizing selection on microsatellite allele length at arginine vasopressin 1a receptor and oxytocin receptor loci.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Physical separation from the mate diminishes male's attentiveness towards other females: a study in monogamous prairie volesCurrent zoology · 2017Article
- Genes Related to Oxytocin and Arginine-Vasopressin Pathways: Associations with Autism Spectrum Disorders.Neuroscience bulletin · 2017Review
- Vasopressinergic Neurocircuitry Regulating Social Attachment in a Monogamous Species.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2017Review
- Fine-scale spatial patterns of genetic relatedness among resident adult prairie voles.Journal of mammalogy · 2015Article
- Stress, social behavior, and resilience: insights from rodents.Neurobiology of stress · 2015Article
- Variation in vasopressin receptor (Avpr1a) expression creates diversity in behaviors related to monogamy in prairie voles.Hormones and behavior · 2013Article
- Identification of subpopulations of prairie voles differentially susceptible to peer influence to decrease high alcohol intake.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2013Article
- κ-Opioid receptors within the nucleus accumbens shell mediate pair bond maintenance.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2012Article
- Oxytocin and vasopressin in the human brain: social neuropeptides for translational medicine.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2011Review
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Abstract
Recent discoveries of single-gene influences on social behaviour have generated a great deal of interest in the proximate mechanisms underlying the expression of complex behaviours. Length polymorphism in a microsatellite in the regulatory region of the gene encoding the vasopressin 1a receptor (avpr1a) has been associated with both inter- and intra-specific variation in socially monogamous behaviour in voles (genus Microtus) under laboratory conditions. Here, we evaluate the relationship between avpr1a length polymorphism and social associations, genetic monogamy, and reproductive success in free-living prairie vole (M. ochrogaster) populations. We found no evidence of a relationship between avpr1a microsatellite length and any of our correlates of either social or genetic monogamy in the field. Our results, especially when taken in conjunction with those of recent experimental studies in semi-natural enclosures, suggest that avpr1a polymorphism is unlikely to have been a major influence in the evolution or maintenance of social monogamy in prairie voles under natural conditions.
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