Welfare of encaged rodents: species specific behavioral reaction of voles to new enrichment items
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: environmental enrichment, stereotypic behavior, stress, voles, welfare
2021
Central oxytocin receptors mediate mating-induced partner preferences and enhance correlated activation across forebrain nuclei in male prairie voles
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: functional connectivity, immediate-early gene, monogamy, pair-bonding, social attachment, social decision-making network
2016
Effects of acute corticosterone treatment on male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): Territorial aggression does not accompany induced social preference
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: corticosterone, microtus ochrogaster, monogamy, prairie vole, stress
2016
A preference to bond? Male prairie voles form pair bonds even in the presence of multiple receptive females
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: microtus ochrogaster, monogamy, pair bond, partner preference, selective aggression
2016
Stress impairs new but not established relationships in seasonally social voles
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: affiliation, corticosterone, meadow vole, microtus pennsylvanicus, partner preference, seasonality, social behavior, stress
2016
Early bi-parental separation or neonatal paternal deprivation in mandarin voles reduces adult offspring paternal behavior and alters serum corticosterone levels and neurochemistry
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: corticosterone, early life environment, mandarin vole (microtus mandarinus), medial preoptic area, nucleus accumbens, paternal behavior
2015
Neuropeptidergic regulation of pair-bonding and stress buffering: Lessons from voles
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: anxiety, autism, corticotrophin-releasing hormone, depression, dopamine, drug abuse, nucleus accumbens, paraventricular nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus, passive stress-coping, posterior dorsal medial amygdala, social bonding, stress, vasopressin, ventral tegmental area
2015
Social isolation disrupts innate immune responses in both male and female prairie voles and enhances agonistic behavior in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: aggression, ch50, corticosterone, hemolytic complement, microtus ochrogaster, psychosocial stress
2015
Defensive responses of Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii) to chronic predatory stress
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: behavior, brandt's voles, cat feces, endocrine, medial hypothalamus, repeated stress, δfosb mrna
2014
Defensive responses of Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii) to stored cat feces
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: behavior, c-fos mrna, cat feces, hormones, lasiopodomys brandtii, medial hypothalamus
2014