Telencephalic binding sites for oxytocin and social organization: Â comparative study of eusocial naked mole-rats and solitary cape mole-rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 518, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1792-1813

  Kalamatianos, Theodosis ^a   Faulkes, Christopher G ^b   Oosthuizen, Maria K ^a,c   Poorun, Ravi ^a   Bennett, Nigel C ^c   Coen, Clive W ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alloparenting; Amygdala; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Cape mole rats; Cooperation; Georychus capensis; Heterocephalusglaber; Hippocampus; Naked mole rats; Nucleus accumbens; Oxytocin; Piriform cortex; Reproduction; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

NEUROPHYSIN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; TELENCEPHALON; VOLE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BINDING SITES; FEMALE; MALE; MOLE RATS; OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 77952156651     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22302     Document Type: Article

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