کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5538570 1552205 2017 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Oxytocin administration during early pair formation delays communal nursing in female house mice
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تزریق اکسایتوسین در طول تشکیل زودهنگام زودهنگام، پرستاری عمومی را در موش های خانم زنانه متوقف می کند
کلمات کلیدی
پرستاری عمومی همکاری، موش خانه اکسی توسین، مدیریت محیطی، شریک اجتماعی،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم دامی و جانورشناسی
چکیده انگلیسی
Oxytocin manipulation has been implicated in the facilitation of social and cooperative behaviours, either through increasing positive and cooperative social interactions, or facilitating bond formation. Here we aimed to determine whether peripheral administration of oxytocin would affect the propensity of unrelated female house mice, Mus musculus domesticus, to cooperate. To investigate this, we used female house mice, with their cooperative ability to communally nurse offspring. Pairs of unfamiliar females received intraperitoneal injections of oxytocin over a 3-day cohabitation period. Following this initial phase, a male was introduced and allowed to mate with the females. We monitored how long it took females to establish and successfully cooperate in the raising of a communal litter. Oxytocin did not affect the females' ability to reproduce. However, oxytocin-treated females took significantly longer to establish a successful communal litter (with pups of both partners being weaned) than saline-treated control females. This delay in communal nursing was due to higher pup mortality and loss of first-born litters in the oxytocin group during their first reproductive event. We conclude that administration of exogenous oxytocin during the early stages of the female relationship delayed the tendency of female house mice to affiliate and cooperate in rearing a communal litter. Our findings contribute to the growing field of oxytocin-based studies and sheds light on the potential long-term effects of oxytocin during early pairwise social interactions.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Animal Behaviour - Volume 123, January 2017, Pages 61-68
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