Female alternative mating tactics, reproductive success and nonapeptide receptor expression in the social decision-making network

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 246, Issue , 2013, Pages 139-147

  Zheng, Da Jiang ^a   Larsson, Britta ^a   Phelps, Steven M ^b,c   Ophir, Alexander G ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive ecology; Mating tactics; Microtus ochrogaster; Oxytocin; Social behavior; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

BRAIN RECEPTOR; NONAPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN V1A RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MONOGAMY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; STRIA TERMINALIS; VOLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; IODINE ISOTOPES; MALE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PAIR BOND; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELEMETRY; VASOPRESSINS; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 84875636383     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.02.024     Document Type: Article

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