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Sexual fidelity trade-offs promote regulatory variation in the prairie vole brain.

Science (New York, N.Y.) - 11 Dec 2015

Okhovat Mariam, Berrio Alejandro, Wallace Gerard, Ophir Alexander G, Phelps Steven M

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Individual variation in social behavior seems ubiquitous, but we know little about how it relates to brain diversity. Among monogamous prairie voles, levels of vasopressin receptor (encoded by the gene avpr1a) in brain regions related to spatial memory predict male space use and sexual fidelity in the field. We find that trade-offs between the benefits of male fidelity and infidelity are reflected in patterns of...

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PMID: 26659055
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac5791

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