ReviewHormones and behavior2016
Fathering in rodents: Neurobiological substrates and consequences for offspring.
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67 citing papers in PubMed, 162 citations in OpenAlex.
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- 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
- Exposure to novel females increases fecundity in adult male prairie voles.Hormones and behavior · 2025Article
- Paternal predatory risk alters parental behavior and offspring phenotypes in biparental Brandt's voles.Current zoology · 2025Article
- Hormonal changes in first-time human fathers in relation to paternal investment.Hormones and behavior · 2025Article
- Parental kynurenine 3-monooxygenase genotype in mice directs sex-specific behavioral outcomes in offspring.Biology of sex differences · 2025Article
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- Brain aromatase and its relationship with parental experience and behavior in male mice.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Unraveling sex differences in maternal and paternal care impacts on social behaviors and neurobiological responses to early-life adversity.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2025Review
- Hormonal and structural transformations in the caregiver's brain: Examining themes in parental neurobiology.AIMS neuroscience · 2025Review
- Paternal absence and increased caregiving independently and interactively shape the development of male prairie voles at subadult and adult life stages.Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
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- Conserved and differing functions of the endocrine system across different social systems - oxytocin as a case study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- Reproductive function and behaviors: an update on the role of neural estrogen receptors alpha and beta.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- Paternal deprivation induces vigilance-avoidant behavior and accompanies sex-specific alterations in stress reactivity and central proinflammatory cytokine response in California mice (Peromyscus californicus).Psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Compensatory enhancement of paternal care in maternally neglected mice family.Animal cells and systems · 2023Article
- Mating-induced prolactin surge is not required for subsequent neurogenesis in male mice.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Plasticity in parental behavior and vasopressin: responses to co-parenting, pup age, and an acute stressor are experience-dependent.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
This article is part of a Special Issue "Parental Care". Paternal care, though rare among mammals, is routinely displayed by several species of rodents. Here we review the neuroanatomical and hormonal bases of paternal behavior, as well as the behavioral and neuroendocrine consequences of paternal behavior for offspring. Fathering behavior is subserved by many of the same neural substrates which are also involved in maternal behavior (for example, the medial preoptic area of the hypothalamus). While gonadal hormones such as testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone, as well as hypothalamic neuropeptides such as oxytocin and vasopressin, and the pituitary hormone prolactin, are implicated in the activation of paternal behavior, there are significant gaps in our knowledge of their actions, as well as pronounced differences between species. Removal of the father in biparental species has long-lasting effects on behavior, as well as on these same neuroendocrine systems, in offspring. Finally, individual differences in paternal behavior can have similarly long-lasting, if more subtle, effects on offspring behavior. Future studies should examine similar outcome measures in multiple species, including both biparental species and closely related uniparental species. Careful phylogenetic analyses of the neuroendocrine systems presumably important to male parenting, as well as their patterns of gene expression, will also be important in establishing the next generation of hypotheses regarding the regulation of male parenting behavior.
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