Using gene editing, researchers have engineered prairie voles with no oxytocin receptors. These monogamous mammals were thought to rely on oxytocin to form social bonds but new results suggest ...

[Related: Prairie Voles Show Empathy Just Like Humans. Prairie voles are small rodents found in the Midwest and also are one of only a few monogamous mammal species .

Many of those studies involved prairie voles, which mate for life and are frequently used to study human behavior. "Oxytocin might be 'love potion number nine,' but one through eight are still in play ...

Prairie voles are one of only a few monogamous mammalian species. After mating, they form lifelong partnerships known as “pair-bonds.” Pair-bonded voles share parental responsibilities, ...

In a recent study of prairie voles, researchers found that oxytocin — long thought to play a vital role in social attachment — is not necessary for this behavior and saw that the rodents still ...

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Because prairie voles are one of the few mammalian species known to form lifelong monogamous relationships, researchers study them to better understand the biology of social bonding.

Chronic social defeat stress in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): A preclinical model for the study of depression-related phenotypes. Journal of Affective Disorders , 2024; 351: 833 DOI: 10. ...

Turning a decades-old dogma on its head, a new study shows that the receptor for oxytocin, a hormone considered essential to forming social bonds, may not play the critical role that scientists have ...

The study, published Jan. 12 in the journal Current Biology, analyzed the habits of prairie voles, which are similar to humans in that they are one of the few mammals who form long-term monogamous ...

One possible explanation for the result is that when prairie voles lack an oxytocin system almost from conception, they are able to draw on other systems to develop normally, Carter says.