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ArticleNature2018

Functional circuit architecture underlying parental behaviour.

Johannes Kohl, Benedicte M Babayan, Nimrod D Rubinstein, Anita E Autry, Brenda Marin-Rodriguez, Vikrant Kapoor, Kazunari Miyamishi, Larry S Zweifel, Liqun Luo, Naoshige Uchida and 1 more

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Article in Nature, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 233 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

233 citing papers in PubMed.

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  17. Paternal behavior is controlled by preoptic Trpc5 neurons.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  18. The neural control of infanticide and parental behaviors in male mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Johannes KohlHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Benedicte M BabayanDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Nimrod D RubinsteinHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Anita E AutryHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Brenda Marin-RodriguezHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Vikrant KapoorDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Kazunari MiyamishiHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Larry S ZweifelDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Liqun LuoHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Naoshige UchidaDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Catherine DulacHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. dulac@fas.harvard.edu.

Funding

Microcircuits underlying murine parental behaviorR01HD082131 · NICHD · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI DULAC, CATHERINE · 2015 to 2024
$3.5M
Functional Neuroanatomy of Circuits Governing Parental BehaviorK99HD085188 · NICHD · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI AUTRY, ANITA · 2016 to 2016
$128k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNICHD NIH HHS K99 HD085188NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD082131Wellcome Trust 106096
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parenting is essential for the survival and wellbeing of mammalian offspring. However, we lack a circuit-level understanding of how distinct components of this behaviour are coordinated. Here we investigate how galanin-expressing neurons in the medial preoptic area (MPOA

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Neural PathwaysSocial BehaviorAnimalsFemaleGalaninHormonesLogicMaleMaternal BehaviorMiceMotivationNeuronsOptogeneticsParentingPaternal BehaviorPreoptic AreaGalaninHormones

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PMCPMC5908752

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