Sentences with phrase «in prairie voles»

The team chose to study pair - bonding in prairie voles because they are one of the few species that mate for life.

Robert Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues chose to study pair - bonding in prairie voles because this species is one of the few to mate for life.

The difference is a protein called the vasopressin receptor, which is ample in the prairie vole but not in the meadow vole.

«We know much more about the chemistry of attachment and love in prairie voles than we do about that chemistry in humans.

«Our results in prairie voles have identified a biological mechanism that could explain the link between discordant drinking and relationship breakdown, but we will need to do further work to confirm this for humans,» says Ryabinin.

In prairie vole society, sex is the prelude to pair bonding between a male and a female.

By influencing early social experience in prairie voles, researchers hope to gain greater insight into what aspects of early social experience drive diversity in adult social behavior.

Burkett's presentation, on oxytocin - dependent comforting behavior in prairie voles, outlined an extension of his graduate work with Larry Young at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, which was published in Science in January 2016 and impressed oxytocin skeptic Ed Yong.

The hormone facilitates nest building and pup retrieval in rats, acceptance of offspring in sheep, and the formation of adult pair - bonds in prairie voles.

In both prairie voles and marmosets, vasopressin jumps after offspring are born and is correlated with nurturing behaviors.