ArticleAnimal behaviour2016
A preference to bond? Male prairie voles form pair bonds even in the presence of multiple receptive females.
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- Acute partner loss enhances social motivation and nucleus accumbens dopamine release in prairie voles.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Accumbal calcium-permeable AMPA receptors orchestrate neuronal ensembles underlying social attachment.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A review of the effects of different types of social behaviors on the recruitment of neuropeptides and neurotransmitters in the nucleus accumbens.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2025Review
- Prairie voles as a model for adaptive reward remodeling following loss of a bonded partner.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Review
- A test of the social behavior network reveals differential patterns of neural responses to social novelty in bonded, but not non-bonded, male prairie voles.Hormones and behavior · 2023Article
- Motherhood and DREADD manipulation of the nucleus accumbens weaken established pair bonds in female prairie voles.Hormones and behavior · 2023Article
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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 · 2022Article
- Multi-Level Effects Driving Cognitive and Behavioral Variability among Prairie Voles: Insights into Reproductive Decision-Making from Biological Levels of Organization.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2022Review
- Behavioral trajectories of aging prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): Adapting behavior to social context wanes with advanced age.PloS one · 2022Article
- 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 · 2021Article
- Sociability and pair-bonding in gerbils: a comparative experimental study.Current zoology · 2019Article
- The Impact of Early Postnatal and Juvenile Social Environments on the Effects of Chronic Intranasal Oxytocin in the Prairie Vole.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Developmental trajectories and influences of environmental complexity on oxytocin receptor and vasopressin 1A receptor expression in male and female prairie voles.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2018Article
- Mechanistic substrates of a life history transition in male prairie voles: Developmental plasticity in affiliation and aggression corresponds to nonapeptide neuronal function.Hormones and behavior · 2018Article
- When to Cheat: Modeling Dynamics of Paternity and Promiscuity in Socially Monogamous Prairie Voles (Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Navigating Monogamy: Nonapeptide Sensitivity in a Memory Neural Circuit May Shape Social Behavior and Mating Decisions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Review
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Abstract
Pair bonds are the cornerstone of a monogamous relationship. When individuals of the same species engage in monogamy and promiscuity (i.e. alternative reproductive tactics) it can be difficult to determine which tactic confers greater fitness, as measures of fitness can be difficult to ascertain. However, in these circumstances, whether animals preferentially establish pair bonds can reveal decisions that presumably reflect the animals' assessment of how to best maximize reproductive success. In nature, the majority of prairie voles,
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