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An epigenomic shift in amygdala marks the transition to maternal behaviors in alloparenting virgin female mice
2021-05-17
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> In many species, adults care for young offspring that are not their own, a phenomenon called alloparenting. However, most nonparental adults must be sensitized by repeated or extended exposures to newborns before they will robustly display parental-like behaviors. To capture neurogenomic events underlying the transition to active parental caring behaviors, we analyzed brain gene expression and c...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9f6170a3-5cb2-516b-92fb-da22efd8d637
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.05.14.444198
