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SUBMITTER: Kelly AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7467705 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kelly Aubrey M AM Ong Jie Yuen JY Witmer Ruth A RA Ophir Alexander G AG
Science advances 20200902 36
Although it is well appreciated that the early-life social environment asserts subsequent long-term consequences on offspring brain and behavior, the specific mechanisms that account for this relationship remain poorly understood. Using a novel assay that forced biparental pairs or single mothers to prioritize caring for offspring or themselves, we investigated the impact of parental variation on adult expression of nonapeptide-modulated behaviors in prairie voles. We demonstrated that single mo ...[more]