Partner preference for strain of female in Long-Evans male rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 102, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 285-290

  Ismail, Nafissa ^a   Jones, Sherri Lee ^a   Graham, M Dean ^a   Sylvester, Sarah ^a   Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Ejaculatory preference; Paced copulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEXUALITY; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; ODORS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78650615996     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Barnett S.A. The rat. A study in behavior 1963, Aldine Publishing, Chicago.
2. Calhoun, J.B. The ecology and sociology of the Norway rat. Washington, DC: US Public Health Service publication No. 1008.
3. Robitaille J.A., Bouvet J. Field observations on the social behaviour of the Norway, Rattus Norvericus (Berkenhout). Biol Behav 1976, 1:289-308.
4. Beach F.A. Analysis of factors involved in the arousal, maintenance and manifestation of sexual excitement in male animals. Psychosom Med 1942, 4:173-198.
5. Beach F.A., Jordan L. Sexual exhaustion and recovery in the male rat. Q J Exp Psychol 1956, 8:121-133.
6. Brown R.E. Sexual arousal, the Coolidge effect and dominance in the rat (Rattus norvegicus). Anim Behav 1974, 22:634-637.
7. 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. Adv Study Behav 1984, 14:1-50.
8. McClintock M.K., Anisko J.J., Adler N.T. Group mating among Norway rats II. The social dynamics of copulation: competition, cooperation and mate choice. Anim Behav 1982, 30:410-425.
9. Lester G.L., Gorzalka B.B. Effect of novel and familiar mating partners on the duration of sexual receptivity in the female hamster. Behav Neural Biol 1988, 49:309-405.
10. Kippin T.E., Talianakis S., Schattmann L., Bartholomew S., Pfaus J.G. Olfactory conditioning of sexual behaviour in the male rat (Rattus norvegicus). J Comp Psychol 1998, 112:389-399.
11. Kippin T.E., Pfaus J.G. The development of olfactory conditioned ejaculatory preferences in the male rat. I. Nature of the unconditioned stimulus. Physiol Behav 2001, 73:457-469.
12. Coria-Avila G.A., Ouimet A., Pacheco P., Manzo J., Pfaus J.G. Olfactory conditioned partner preference in the female rats. Behav Neurosci 2005, 119(3):716-725.
13. Erskine M.S., Kornberg E., Cherry J.A. Paced copulation in rats: effects of intromission frequency and duration on luteal activation and estrus length. Physiol Behav 1989, 45(1):33-39.
14. Paredes R.G., Vasquez B. What do female rats like about sex? Paced mating. Behav Brain Res 1999, 105:117-127.
15. Erskine M.S. Learning about sex: conditioning of partner preference: theoretical comment on Coria-Avila et al. (2005). Behav Neurosci 2009, 119:1136-1139.
16. Austin D., Dewsbury D.A. Possible influence of strain differences on pregnancy initiation in laboratory rats. Physiol Behav 1986, 37:621-625.
17. Coria-Avila G.A., Pfaus J.G., Hernandez M.E., Manzo J., Pacheco P. Timing between ejaculations changes paternity success. Physiol Behav 2004, 80:733-737.
18. Coria-Avila G.A., Jones S.L., Solomon C.E., Gavrila A.M., Jordan G.J., Pfaus J.G. Conditioned partner preference in female rats for strain of male. Physiol Behav 2006, 88(4-5):529-537.
19. Ismail N., Gelez H., Lachapelle I., Pfaus J.G. Pacing conditions contribute to the conditioned ejaculatory preference for a familiar female in the male rat. Physiol Behav 2009, 96(2):201-208.
20. Cabilio S. Behavioral observation program. [Unpublished Computer Software]. Concordia University; 1996.
21. Sachs B.D., Barfield R.J. Temporal patterning of sexual behavior in the male rat. J Comp Physiol Psychol 1970, 73:359-364.
22. Hardy D.F., DeBold J.F. Effects of coital stimulation upon behavior of the female rat. J Comp Physiol Psychol 1972, 78:400-408.
23. Adkins-Regan E., Mansukhani V., Thompson R., Yang S. Organizational actions of sex hormones on sexual partner preference. Brain Res Bull 1997, 44(4):497-502.
24. Ballard C.L., Wood R.I. Partner preference in male hamsters: steroids, sexual experience and chemosensory cues. Physiol Behav 2007, 91:1-8.
25. Everitt B.J. Sexual motivation: a neural and behavioral analysis of the mechanisms underlying appetitive and copulatory responses of male rats. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 1990, 14(2):217-232.
26. Hughes A.M., Everitt B.J., Herbert J. Comparative effects of preoptic area infusions of opioid peptides, lesions and castration on sexual behavior of male rats: studies of instrumental behavior, conditioned place preference and partner preference. Psychopharmacology 1990, 102:243-256.
27. Matusczyk J.V., Larsson K. Experience modulates the influence of gonadal hormones on sexual orientation of male rats. Physiol Behav 1994, 55(3):527-531.
28. D'Udine B., Alleva E. Early experience and sexual preferences in rodents. Mate choice 1983, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. P. Batenson (Ed.).
29. Fillion T.J., Blass E.M. Infantile experience with suckling odors determines adult sexual behavior in male rats. Science 1986, 231:729-731.
30. Lagerspetz K., Heino T. Changes in social reactions resulting in early experience with another species. Psychol Rep 1970, 27:255-262.
31. Ismail N., Zhao Y., Pfaus J.G. Context-dependent acquisition of copulatory behavior in the male rat: role of female availability. Behav Neurosci 2008, 122(5):991-997.
32. Ismail N., Laroche C., Girard-Bériault F., Ménard S., Greggain-Mohr J.A., Pfaus J.G. Sexual responses and partner preferences of male rats paired with haloperidol-treated female rats. Physiol Behav 2010, 100:116-121.
33. Martinez I., Paredes R.G. Only self-paced mating is rewarding in rats of both sexes. Horm Behav 2001, 40:510-517.
34. Miller R.L., Baum M.J. Naloxone inhibits mating and conditioned place preference for an estrous female in male rats soon after castration. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1987, 26(4):781-789.
35. Kippin T.E., Pfaus J.G. The nature of the conditioned response mediating olfactory conditioned ejaculation preference in the male rat. Behav Brain Res 2001, 122(1):11-24.
36. Kippin T.E., Samaha A.N., Sotinopoulos V., Pfaus J.G. The development of olfactory conditioned ejaculatory preferences in the male rat. II. Parametric manipulation of conditioning session number and duration. Physiol Behav 2001, 73(4):471-485.
37. Larsson K. Conditioning and sexual behavior in the male albino rat. Acta Physiol Gothoburg 1956, 1:1-269.
38. Lipp O.V. Anticipation of a non-aversive reaction time task facilitates the blink startle reflex. Biol Psychol 2002, 59(2):147-162.
39. Richardson N.R., Gratton A. Changes in nucleus accumbens dopamine transmission associated with fixed- and variable-time schedule-induced feeding. Eur J Neurosci 2008, 27:2714-2723.
40. Coria-Avila G.A., Solomon C.E., Barbosa Vargas E., Lemme I., Ryan R., Ménard S., et al. Neurochemical basis of conditioned partner preference in the female rat: I. Disruption by naloxone. Behav Neurosci 2008, 122:385-395.
41. Cibrian-Llanderal T., Tecamachaltzi-Silvaran M., Triana-Del Rio R., Pfaus J.G., Manzo J., Coria-Avila G.A. Clitoral stimulation modulates appetitive sexual behavior and facilitatesreproduction in rats. Physiol Behav 2010, 100:148-153.
42. Parada M., Chamas L., Censi S., Coria-Avila G.A., Pfaus J.G. Clitoral stimulation induces conditioned place preference and Fos activation in the rat. Horm Behav 2009, 57:112-118.
43. Sachs B.D. Penile erection in response to remote cues from females: albino rats severely impaired relative to pigmented strains. Physiol Behav 1996, 60:803-808.
44. Matsumoto T., Kondo Y., Sachs B.D., Yamanouchi K. Effects of p-chlorophenylalanine on reflexive and noncontact penile erections in male rats. Physiol Behav 1997, 61:165-168.
45. Pfaus J.G. Pathways of sexual desire. J Sex Med 2009, 6:1506-1533.