Sentences with phrase «female prairie voles»
Oxytocin helps keep female prairie voles bonded with their partners.
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Williams, J. R., Catania, K. C. & Carter, C. S. Development of partner preferences in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): the role of social and sexual experience.
Characterization of the oxytocin system regulating affiliative behavior in female prairie voles.
Activating circuits in the brains of female prairie voles can make them «fall in love».
Andre Walcott, a graduate student in Ryabinin's laboratory, allowed male and female prairie voles to form social bonds over one week.
By simply activating certain circuits in the brains of female prairie voles, researchers made them «fall in love» with specific males.
Not exact matches
In a study published last fall, researchers showed that male prairie voles that had been separated from their female partners for four days — a much shorter amount of separation time than researchers had previously found to affect the voles» physiology — exhibited depressionlike behavior and had increased levels of corticosterone, the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.
A study of the effect of alcohol on long - term relationships finds that when a male prairie vole has access to alcohol, but his female partner doesn't, the relationship suffers — similar to what has been observed in human couples.
Bachelor prairie voles can't tell females of their species apart.
The dramatic proof came in an experiment in which the researchers were able to make a mouse more caring for females by giving it the vasopressin receptor gene from the prairie vole, well known for being faithful and social.
The prairie voles responded with increased displays of chivalry, included sniffing, licking, and grooming the females, but the mountain voles remained aloof as ever.