Context-Dependent Acquisition of Copulatory Behavior in the Male Rat: Role of Female Availability

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 991-997

  Ismail, Nafissa ^a   Zhao, Yue ^a   Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

arousal; context; ejaculation; paced copulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COITUS; COPULATION; EJACULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; MALE; ODORS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SMELL;

EID: 54049100860     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012831     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Ågmo A., and Berenfeld R. Reinforcing properties of ejaculation in the male rat: Role of opioids and dopamine. Behavioral Neuroscience 104 (1990) 177-182
2. Beach F.A. Analysis of the stimuli adequate to elicit mating behavior in the sexually inexperienced male rat. Journal of Comparative Physiology and Psychology 33 (1942) 163-207
3. Beach F.A. Characteristics of masculine "sex drive.". Nebraska Symposium on Motivation 4 (1956) 1-32
4. Brown R.E. The 22-kHz pre-ejaculatory vocalizations of the male rat. Physiology & Behavior 22 (1979) 483-489
5. Cabilio, S. (2007). Behavioral observation program [unpublished computer software]. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
6. Coria-Avila G.A., Gavrila A.M., Boulard B., Charron N., and Stanley G. Neurochemical basis of conditioned partner preference in the female rat: II. Disruption by flupenthixol. Behavioral Neuroscience 122 (2008) 396-406
7. Coria-Avila G.A., Jones S.L., Solomon C.E., Gavrila A.M., Jordan G.J., and Pfaus J.G. Conditioned partner preference in female rats for strain of male. Physiology & Behavior 88 (2006) 529-537
8. Coria-Avila G.A., Ouimet A.J., Pacheco P., Manzo J., and Pfaus J.G. Olfactory conditioned partner preference in the female rats. Behavioural Neuroscience 119 (2005) 716-725
9. Coria-Avila G.A., Solomon C.E., Vargas E.B., Lemme I., Ryan R., Ménard S., et al. Neurochemical basis of conditioned partner preference in the female rat: I. Disruption by naloxone. Behavioral Neuroscience 122 (2008) 385-395
10. Dewsbury D.A. Copulatory behavior of rats (Rattus norvegicus) as a function of prior copulatory experience. Animal Behavior 17 (1969) 217-223
11. Drori D., and Folman Y. Effects of cohabitation on the reproductive system, kidneys, and body composition of male rats. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 8 (1964) 351-359
12. Erskine M.S., Kornberg E., and Cherry J.A. Paced copulation in rats: Effects of intromission frequency and duration on luteal activation and estrus length. Physiology & Behavior 45 (1989) 33-39
13. Everitt B.J. Sexual motivation: A neural and behavioral analysis of the mechanisms underlying appetitive and copulatory responses of male rats. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 14 (1990) 217-232
14. Fadem B.H., and Barfield R.J. Differences between male and female rats in the temporal pattern of copulation. Behavioral and Neural Biology 36 (1982) 411-415
15. Gray G.D., Smith E.R., Dorsa D.M., and Davidson J.M. Sexual behavior and testosterone in middle-aged male rats. Endocrinology 109 (1981) 1597-1604
16. Hardy D.F., and DeBold J.F. Effects of coital stimulation upon behavior of the female rat. Journal of Comparative Physiology and Psychology 78 (1972) 400-408
17. Herz Z.Y., Folman Y., and Drori D. The testosterone content of the testes of mated and unmated rats. Journal of Endocrinology 44 (1969) 127-128
18. Hull E.M., and Dominguez J.M. Sexual behavior in male rodents. Hormones and Behavior 52 (2007) 45-55
19. Kippin T.E., and Pfaus J.G. The development of olfactory conditioned ejaculatory preferences in the male rat. I. Nature of the unconditioned stimulus. Physiology and Behavior 73 (2001) 457-469
20. Kippin T.E., and Pfaus J.G. The nature of the conditioned response mediating olfactory conditioned ejaculatory preference in the male rat. Behavioural Brain Research 122 (2001) 11-24
21. Kippin T.E., Samaha A.N., Sotinopoulos V., and Pfaus J.G. The development of olfactory conditioned ejaculatory preferences in the male rat. II. Parametric manipulation of conditioning session number and duration. Physiology & Behavior 73 (2001) 471-485
22. Kippin T.E., Talianakis S., Schattmann L., Bartholomew S., and Pfaus J.G. Olfactory conditioning of sexual behaviour in the male rat (Rattus norvegicus). Journal of Comparative Psychology 112 (1998) 389-399
23. Larsson K. Conditioning and sexual behavior in the male albino rat (1956), Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm
24. Madlafousek J., and Hlińák Z. Importance of female's precopulatory behaviour for the primary initiation of male's copulatory behaviour in the laboratory rat. Behaviour 86 (1982) 237-249
25. Madlafousek J., Hlińák Z., and Beran J. Decline of sexual behavior in castrated male rats: Effects of female precopulatory behavior. Hormones and Behavior 7 (1976) 245-252
26. Martinez I., and Paredes R.G. Only self-paced mating is rewarding in rats of both sexes. Hormones and Behavior 40 (2001) 510-517
27. McClintock M.K. Group mating in the domestic rat as a context for sexual selection: Consequences for the analysis of sexual behavior and neuroendocrine responses. Advances in the Study of Behavior 14 (1984) 1-50
28. McKenna K.E. Central nervous system pathways involved in the control of penile erection. Annual Review of Sex Research 10 (1999) 157-183
29. Mehrara B.J., and Baum M.J. Naloxone disrupts the expression but not the acquisition by male rats of a conditioned place preference response for an oestrous female. Psychoparmacology 110 (1990) 118-125
30. Miller R.L., and Baum M.J. Naloxone inhibits mating and conditioned place preference for an estrous female in male rats soon after castration. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 26 (1987) 781-789
31. Paredes R.G., and Alonso A. Sexual behavior regulated (paced) by the female induces conditioned place preference. Behavioral Neuroscience 111 (1997) 123-128
32. Paredes R.G., and Vazquez B. What do female rats like about sex? Paced mating. Behavioral Brain Research 105 (1999) 117-127
33. Pattij T., de Jong T.R., Uitterdijk A., Waldinger M.D., Veening J.G., Cools A.R., et al. Individual differences in male rat ejaculatory behavior: Searching for models to study ejaculation disorders. The European Journal of Neuroscience 22 (2005) 724-734
34. Pfaus J.G. Revisiting the concept of sexual motivation. Annual Review of Sex Research 10 (1999) 120-156
35. Pfaus J.G., Mendelson S.D., and Phillips A.G. A correlation and factor analysis of anticipatory and consummatory measures of sexual behavior in the male rat. Psychoneuroendocrinology 15 (1990) 329-340
36. Pfaus J.G., and Phillips A.G. Role of dopamine in anticipatory and consummatory aspects of sexual behavior in the male rat. Behavioral Neuroscience 105 (1991) 727-743
37. Pfaus J.G., and Wilkins M.F. A novel environment disrupts copulation in sexually naive but not experienced male rats: Reversal with naloxone. Physiology and Behavior 57 (1995) 1045-1049
38. Rowland D.L. Psychophysiology of ejaculatory function and dysfunction. World Journal of Urology 23 (2005) 82-88
39. Sachs B.D. Conceptual and neural mechanisms of masculine copulatory behavior. In: McGill T.E., Dewsbury D.A., and Sachs B.D. (Eds). Sex and behavior (1978), Plenum Press, New York 267-295
40. Sachs B.D., and Barfield R.J. Temporal patterning of sexual behavior in the male rat. The Journal of Comparative Physiological Psychology 73 (1970) 359-364
41. Sachs B.D., and Meisel R.L. The physiology of male sexual behavior. In: Knobil E., and Neill J. (Eds). The physiology of reproduction (1988), Raven, New York 1393-1485
42. Siegel L.I., Nunez A.A., and Wade G.N. Copulation affects body weight but not food intake or dietary self-selection in male rats. Physiology and Behavior 27 (1981) 943-946
43. Silberberg A., and Adler N. Modulation of the copulatory sequence of the male rat by a schedule of reinforcement. Science 185 4148 (1974) 374-376
44. Stone C.P. The congenital sexual behavior of the young male albino rat. Journal of Comparative Psychology 2 (1922) 95-153
45. Thor D., and Flannelly K.J. Social-olfactory experience and initiation of copulation in the virgin male rat. Physiology and Behavior 19 (1977) 411-417
46. Toates F.M. Motivational systems (1986), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
47. Vega Matuszcyk J., Larsson K., and Eriksson E. The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine reduces sexual motivation in male rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 60 (1998) 527-532
48. Whalen R.E. Effects of mounting without intromission and intromission without ejaculation on sexual behavior and maze learning. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 54 (1961) 409-415