Growing up in the family or growing up alone influences behavior and hormones, but not arginine vasopressin receptor 1a expression in male African striped mice

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 129, Issue , 2014, Pages 205-213

  Schradin, Carsten ^a,b,c,d   Larke, Rebecca H ^e   Bales, Karen L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communal breeding; Helper; Intra specific variation; Paternal care; Prairie vole; Social flexibility; Social organization

Indexed keywords

ARGININE VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR 1A; ARGIPRESSIN RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARGIPRESSIN; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

ALTERNATIVE REPRODUCTIVE TACTIC; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BODY MASS; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FAMILY INTERACTION; FAMILY ISOLATION; GROWTH; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BONDING; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; BLOOD; BRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; METABOLISM; MURINAE; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MURINAE; PATERNAL DEPRIVATION; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84896336104     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.02.060     Document Type: Article

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