Sentences with phrase «female voles»

Oxytocin is another hormone released during sex (and also during childbirth and nursing) that strengthens social bonds, and female voles with more oxytocin receptors are also more likely to mate for life.

Through the activation of brain circuits with light, female voles were tricked into selecting specific partners

Next, the researchers devised a way to activate this «love» circuit themselves in female voles.

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Once they had identified the «love» circuit, the researchers devised a way to activate it themselves in female voles using a technique called optogenetics.

However, when Larry Young at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, injected female voles with a drug that blocked either dopamine or oxytocin, they became polygamous.

Not exact matches

Upon closer inspection, scientists saw that specific neurons that fired when the voles interacted with their mates stayed silent when they interacting with a different female.

By simply activating certain circuits in the brains of female prairie voles, researchers made them «fall in love» with specific males.

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.

«When male voles drink alcohol, but their partner doesn't, their relationship suffers: Males who drink alone spend less time with their original female partner compared to couples where both drink alcohol and those which never drink.»

Andre Walcott, a graduate student in Ryabinin's laboratory, allowed male and female prairie voles to form social bonds over one week.

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.

A vole female with her pups and no male are shown.

Bachelor prairie voles can't tell females of their species apart.

Conquering the divide and mating with a female after just six hours of her company can form a lifelong pair - bond between voles.

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.

But the treated voles preferred to cuddle with the familiar female.

Activating circuits in the brains of female prairie voles can make them «fall in love».

The prairie voles responded with increased displays of chivalry, included sniffing, licking, and grooming the females, but the mountain voles remained aloof as ever.

Characterization of the oxytocin system regulating affiliative behavior in female prairie voles.

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.

Oxytocin helps keep female prairie voles bonded with their partners.