Variation in vasopressin receptor (Avpr1a) expression creates diversity in behaviors related to monogamy in prairie voles

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 518-526

  Barrett, Catherine E ^a   Keebaugh, Alaine C ^a,b   Ahern, Todd H ^a   Bass, Caroline E ^c   Terwilliger, Ernest F ^c   Young, Larry J ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Microtus ochrogaster; Pair bond; RNAi; Vasopressin; Ventral pallidum

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; VASOPRESSIN V1A RECEPTOR; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVPR1A GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VENTRAL PALLIDUM; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ARVICOLINAE; BASAL GANGLIA; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PAIR BOND; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 84875050886     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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