ArticleHormones and behavior2011
Effects of reproductive status on behavioral and endocrine responses to acute stress in a biparental rodent, the California mouse (Peromyscus californicus).
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- Effects of partial cage dividers on animal welfare and social behavior in California mice (Applied animal behaviour science · 2026Article
- A holistic review of fatherhood in humans and non-human animals: mechanisms of fatherhood, effects on fathers themselves, and interactions of fathers with others.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity and anxiety-like behavior during aging: A test of the glucocorticoid cascade hypothesis in amyloidogenic APPswe/PS1dE9 mice.General and comparative endocrinology · 2023Article
- Plasticity of the paternal brain: Effects of fatherhood on neural structure and function.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Review
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- Effects of short- and long-term cold acclimation on morphology, physiology, and exercise performance of California mice (Peromyscus californicus): potential modulation by fatherhood.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2019Article
- Fatherhood alters gene expression within the MPOA.Environmental epigenetics · 2018Article
- Like mother, like daughter: heritability of female Richardson's ground squirrelCurrent zoology · 2018Article
- Effects of a physical and energetic challenge on male California mice (The Journal of experimental biology · 2018Article
- Metabolic and affective consequences of fatherhood in male California mice.Physiology & behavior · 2017Article
- Effects of repeated pup exposure on behavioral, neural, and adrenocortical responses to pups in male California mice (Peromyscus californicus).Hormones and behavior · 2017Article
- The birth of new neurons in the maternal brain: Hormonal regulation and functional implications.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2016Review
- Fathering in rodents: Neurobiological substrates and consequences for offspring.Hormones and behavior · 2016Review
- Functional significance of hormonal changes in mammalian fathers.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2014Review
- Differences in placentophagia in relation to reproductive status in the California mouse (Peromyscus californicus).Developmental psychobiology · 2014Article
- Chronic variable stress in fathers alters paternal and social behavior but not pup development in the biparental California mouse (Peromyscus californicus).Hormones and behavior · 2013Article
- Physiological and neuroendocrine responses to chronic variable stress in male California mice (Peromyscus californicus): Influence of social environment and paternal state.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2013Article
- Effects of aging on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity and reactivity in virgin male and female California mice (Peromyscus californicus).General and comparative endocrinology · 2013Article
- Effect of reproductive status on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity and reactivity in male California mice (Peromyscus californicus).Physiology & behavior · 2013Article
- Sexual Dimorphism in the Brain of the Monogamous California Mouse (Peromyscus californicus).Brain, behavior and evolution · 2013Article
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Abstract
In several mammalian species, lactating females show blunted neural, hormonal, and behavioral responses to stressors. It is not known whether new fathers also show stress hyporesponsiveness in species in which males provide infant care. To test this possibility, we determined the effects of male and female reproductive status on stress responsiveness in the biparental, monogamous California mouse (Peromyscus californicus). Breeding (N=8 females, 8 males), nonbreeding (N=10 females, 10 males) and virgin mice (N=12 females, 9 males) were exposed to a 5-min predator-urine stressor at two time points, corresponding to the early postpartum (5-7 days postpartum) and mid/late postpartum (19-21 days postpartum) phases, and blood samples were collected immediately afterwards. Baseline blood samples were obtained 2 days prior to each stress test. Baseline plasma corticosterone (CORT) concentrations did not differ among male or female groups. CORT responses to the stressor did not differ among female reproductive groups, and all three groups showed distinct behavioral responses to predator urine. Virgin males tended to increase their CORT response from the first to the second stress test, while breeding and nonbreeding males did not. Moreover, virgin and nonbreeding males showed significant behavioral changes in response to predator urine, whereas breeding males did not. These results suggest that adrenocortical responses to a repeated stressor in male California mice may be modulated by cohabitation with a female, whereas behavioral responses to stress may be blunted by parental status.
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