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
Successful care and propagation of the endangered amargosa vole (Microtus californicus scirpensis) in captivity
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captive breeding, captive management, conservation, husbandry
2018
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
Early rearing experience is associated with vasopressin immunoreactivity but not reactivity to an acute non-social stressor in the prairie vole
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: biparental care, corticotropin releasing hormone, forced swim test, natural variation, prairie vole, vasopressin
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
The effect of alloparental experience and care on anxiety-like, social and parental behaviour in adult mandarin voles
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: aggression, alloparental care, alloparental experience, anxiety-like behaviour, early development, locomotor-activity, mandarin vole, microtus mandarinus, parental behaviour, social behaviour
2013