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Female-directed aggression predicts paternal behavior, but female prairie voles prefer affiliative males to paternal males.
Brain, behavior and evolution - 1 Jan 2008
Ophir Alexander G, Crino Ondi L, Wilkerson Quiana C, Wolff Jerry O, Phelps Steven M
Abstract excerpt
In the socially monogamous prairie vole, Microtus ochrogaster, male affiliation and parental care are influenced by the neuropeptide arginine vasopressin and expression of its receptor V1aR. If parental care and adult affiliation can be considered a behavioral syndrome, females might use male affiliative behavior as a cue to choose a good father. We investigated three questions: (1) do females prefer affiliative...
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