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Variation in neural V1aR predicts sexual fidelity and space use among male prairie voles in semi-natural settings.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Jan 2008

Ophir Alexander G, Wolff Jerry O, Phelps Steven M

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Although prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) are socially monogamous, males vary in both sexual and spatial fidelity. Most males form pairbonds, cohabit with one female, and defend territories. Wandering males, in contrast, have expansive home ranges that overlap many males and females. In the laboratory, pairing is regulated by arginine vasopressin and its predominant CNS receptor, vasopressin 1a receptor...

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PMID: 18212120
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709116105
PMCID: PMC2234124

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