ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2014
Pairmate-dependent pup retrieval as parental behavior in male mice.
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- Body language signals for rodent social communication.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2021Review
- Functional New World monkey oxytocin forms elicit an altered signaling profile and promotes parental care in rats.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Characterization of vocalizations emitted in isolation by California mouse (Peromyscus californicus) pups throughout the postnatal period.Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) · 2017Article
- Fathering in rodents: Neurobiological substrates and consequences for offspring.Hormones and behavior · 2016Review
- Sex differences in morphine-induced behavioral sensitization and social behaviors in ICR mice.Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research · 2015Article
- Paternal Retrieval Behavior Regulated by Brain Estrogen Synthetase (Aromatase) in Mouse Sires that Engage in Communicative Interactions with Pairmates.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2015Article
- c-Fos expression in the paternal mouse brain induced by communicative interaction with maternal mates.Molecular brain · 2014Article
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Abstract
Appropriate parental care by fathers can greatly facilitate healthy human family life. However, much less is known about paternal behavior in animals compared to those regarding maternal behavior. Previously, we reported that male ICR strain laboratory mice, although not spontaneously parental, can be induced to display maternal-like parental care (pup retrieval) when separated from their pups by signals from the pairmate dam (Liu et al., 2013). This parental behavior by the ICR sires, which are not genetically biparental, is novel and has been designated as pairmate-dependent paternal behavior. However, the factors critical for this paternal behavior are unclear. Here, we report that the pairmate-dependent paternal retrieval behavior is observed especially in the ICR strain and not in C57BL/6 or BALB/c mice. An ICR sire displays retrieval behavior only toward his biological pups. A sire co-housed with an unrelated non-pairing dam in a new environment, under which 38-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations are not detected, does not show parenting behavior. It is important for sires to establish their own home territory (cage) by continuous housing and testing to display retrieval behavior. These results indicated that the ICR sires display distinct paternity, including father-child social interaction, and shed light on parental behavior, although further analyses of paternal care at the neuroendocrinological and neurocircuitry levels are required.
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