Pair-bonding and social experience modulate new neurons survival in adult male and female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

• Main Authors: Analía E. Castro (Author), Raymundo Domínguez-Ordoñez (Author), Larry J. Young (Author), Francisco J. Camacho (Author), Daniela Ávila-González (Author), Raúl G. Paredes (Author), Nestor F. Díaz (Author), Wendy Portillo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Prairie voles are a socially monogamous species that, after cohabitation with mating, form enduring pair bonds. The plastic mechanisms involved in this social behavior are not well-understood. Neurogenesis in adult rodents is a plastic neural process induced in specific brain areas like the olfactor...