Mating increases male's interest in other females: A cognitive study in socially monogamous prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-134

  Parker, Jamie T ^a   Rodriguez, Natalia ^a   Lawal, Basirat ^a   Delevan, Christine J ^a   Bamshad, Maryam ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Mating tactics; Retrosplenial cortex; Social cognition; Social monogamy

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COGNITION; DATA SET; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MALE; MATING BEHAVIOR; NEUROLOGY; PRAIRIE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL; SMALL MAMMAL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; SOCIAL COGNITION;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CUES; ESTRUS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENES, FOS; GROOMING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODORS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

MICROTUS OCHROGASTER;

EID: 80052955899     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.08.010     Document Type: Article

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