Intergenerational transmission of the behavioral consequences of early experience in prairie voles

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 732-738

  Stone, Anita Iyengar ^a,b   Bales, Karen Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Monogamy; Parental behavior; Prairie vole

Indexed keywords

ALLOPARENTAL CARE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MALE BEHAVIOR; MONOGAMY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRAIRIE; PROGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LEARNING; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POSTURE; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; RODENTIA;

EID: 77953911935     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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