ArticleeLife2021
Social selectivity and social motivation in voles.
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- Reunion with a peer partner reduces PVN oxytocin neuron immunoreactivity in socially selective voles.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- The effects of social loss and isolation on partner odor investigation and dopamine and oxytocin receptor expression in female prairie voles.Neuropharmacology · 2025Article
- 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
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- Prairie voles seek social contact with peer companions during immune challenge.Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
- Egalitarian cooperation linked to central oxytocin levels in communal breeding house mice.Communications biology · 2024Article
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- Prairie voles as a model for adaptive reward remodeling following loss of a bonded partner.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Review
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- Nucleus accumbens dopamine release reflects the selective nature of pair bonds.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- TheFrontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Pair bonding and disruption impact lung transcriptome in monogamous Peromyscus californicus.BMC genomics · 2023Article
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Abstract
Selective relationships are fundamental to humans and many other animals, but relationships between mates, family members, or peers may be mediated differently. We examined connections between social reward and social selectivity, aggression, and oxytocin receptor signaling pathways in rodents that naturally form enduring, selective relationships with mates and peers (monogamous prairie voles) or peers (group-living meadow voles). Female prairie and meadow voles worked harder to access familiar versus unfamiliar individuals, regardless of sex, and huddled extensively with familiar subjects. Male prairie voles displayed strongly selective huddling preferences for familiar animals, but only worked harder to repeatedly access females versus males, with no difference in effort by familiarity. This reveals a striking sex difference in pathways underlying social monogamy and demonstrates a fundamental disconnect between motivation and social selectivity in males-a distinction not detected by the partner preference test. Meadow voles exhibited social preferences but low social motivation, consistent with tolerance rather than reward supporting social groups in this species. Natural variation in oxytocin receptor binding predicted individual variation in prosocial and aggressive behaviors. These results provide a basis for understanding species, sex, and individual differences in the mechanisms underlying the role of social reward in social preference.
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