Do females influence paternal responsiveness in male prairie voles Microtus ochrogaster by increasing the salience of infant odors?
Male prairie voles become more responsive to infants following cohabitation with a female. Exposure to female sensory cues prior to offspring birth may influence male paternal tendencies by modifying his response to infant odors in particular or to odors in general. To test these hypotheses, males w...
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Oxford University Press
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Current Zoology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=12243 |