ArticleHormones and behavior2020
How prior pair-bonding experience affects future bonding behavior in monogamous prairie voles.
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- A Demographic History of a Prairie Vole (bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Opposite-sex pairing alters social-induced GCaMP and dopamine activity in the insula of male prairie voles.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Single nucleus RNA-sequencing reveals transcriptional synchrony across different relationships.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Aging leads to sex-dependent effects on pair bonding and increased number of oxytocin-producing neurons in monogamous prairie voles.Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
- Prairie voles as a model for adaptive reward remodeling following loss of a bonded partner.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Review
- Nucleus accumbens dopamine release reflects the selective nature of pair bonds.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Partner-seeking and limbic dopamine system are enhanced following social loss in male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).Genes, brain, and behavior · 2023Article
- Recovering from a broken heart.eLife · 2023Article
- Peer Social Environment Impacts Behavior and Dopamine D1 Receptor Density in Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster).Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Partner separation rescues pair bond-induced decreases in hypothalamic oxytocin neural densities.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Effects of pairing on color change and central gene expression in lined seahorses.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2022Article
- Effects of a D2 receptor antagonist on repeated pair bond formation in the male prairie vole.Hormones and behavior · 2022Article
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- Neurobiology of Loneliness, Isolation, and Loss: Integrating Human and Animal Perspectives.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
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- Familiarity and Mate Preference Assessment with the Partner Preference Test.Current protocols · 2021Article
- Comparative Assessment of Familiarity/Novelty Preferences in Rodents.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Monogamous prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) form mating-based pair bonds. Although wild prairie voles rarely re-pair following loss of a partner, laboratory studies have shown that previous pairing and mating does not negate the ability to form a new partner preference. However, little is known about how prior bond experience may alter the trajectory and display of a new pair bond. In the present study, we disrupted an initial pair bond by separating partners and then varied the amount of time before a new partner was introduced. We assessed how separation time affected the stability of partner preference over time and influenced decision-making in male voles performing a head-to-head partner preference test in which they chose between the first and second partner. We found that the ability to consistently display a preference for the second partner, supplanting the initial pair bond, depended on how long the test animal was separated from their first partner. Prior bonding experience also shaped the subsequent effects of mating on partner preference. Partner preference strength was sensitive to latency to mate with the second partner but not the first partner, irrespective of separation time. These results suggest that the ability to form a consistent, strong preference for a new partner after an initial pair bond depends upon the amount of time that has passed since separation from the first partner. These results provide valuable insight into how social bonds are dynamically shaped by prior social experience and identify variables that contribute to recovery from partner loss and the ability to form a new pair bond. They also delineate a behavioral trajectory essential for future work examining the hormonal and genetic changes that enable recovery from partner loss.
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