ReviewHormones and behavior2019
Frank Beach award winner: Neuroendocrinology of group living.
Review in Hormones and behavior, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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19 citing papers in PubMed.
- Neurochemical imaging reveals changes in dopamine dynamics with photoperiod in a seasonally social vole species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Declines in Oxytocin Receptor Density and Social Behavior Across a Dispersal-Like Transition in Solitary Hamsters.Developmental neurobiology · 2025Article
- Reunion with a peer partner reduces PVN oxytocin neuron immunoreactivity in socially selective voles.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Identity-stable multi-animal tracking using bidirectional segmentation with object-level memory.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Oxytocin receptors mediate social selectivity in prairie vole peer relationships.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Comparative analysis of gonadal hormone receptor expression in the postnatal house mouse, meadow vole, and prairie vole brain.Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
- Selectivity and Sociality: Aggression and Affiliation Shape Vole Social Relationships.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
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- Love and longevity: A Social Dependency Hypothesis.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Review
- A Neuroscientist's Guide to the Vole.Current protocols · 2021Article
- Familiarity and Mate Preference Assessment with the Partner Preference Test.Current protocols · 2021Article
- Systems Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors in Rodents.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Review
- The role of dopamine signaling in prairie vole peer relationships.Hormones and behavior · 2021Article
- Comparative Assessment of Familiarity/Novelty Preferences in Rodents.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Stress in groups: Lessons from non-traditional rodent species and housing models.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Review
- Female degus show high sociality but no preference for familiar peers.Behavioural processes · 2020Article
- Social creatures: Model animal systems for studying the neuroendocrine mechanisms of social behaviour.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2019Review
- Affiliation, Aggression, and Selectivity of Peer Relationships in Meadow and Prairie Voles.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Why Do Birds Flock? A Role for Opioids in the Reinforcement of Gregarious Social Interactions.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Why do members of some species live in groups while others are solitary? Group living (sociality) has often been studied from an evolutionary perspective, but less is known about the neurobiology of affiliation outside the realms of mating and parenting. Colonial species offer a valuable opportunity to study nonsexual affiliative behavior between adult peers. Meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) display environmentally induced variation in social behavior, maintaining exclusive territories in summer months, but living in social groups in winter. Research on peer relationships in female meadow voles demonstrates that these selective preferences are mediated differently than mate relationships in socially monogamous prairie voles, but are also impacted by oxytocin and HPA axis signaling. This review addresses day-length dependent variation in physiology and behavior, and presents the current understanding of the mechanisms supporting selective social relationships in meadow voles, with connections to lessons from other species.
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