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Voles Apart: The Monogamy of Mice and Men
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This is a story of two male rodents, one a naturally faithful
husband and good father, the other a loner, a scoundrel and a cad.
It's a story of the discovery of a single gene that accounts for
the difference between the two.
And it is, inevitably, a story of the temptation to inject a batch
of the fidelity genes into the deadbeat dads and other dirty rats in
our own species--and why, at least for the foreseeable future,
biology and alimony just won't mix that way.
The story begins in the Midwest, the symbolic homeland of American
family values and favored stomping ground of prairie voles, ...
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Natal philopatry in the prairie vole, Microtus ochrogaster, in a low food habitat
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist
; ...Evidence for natal philopatry in the prairie vole, Microtus ochrogaster in a lowfood...evidence for natal philopatry in the prairie vole in a low-food habitat. INTRODUCTION Social organization of the prairie vole, Microtus ochrogaster consists...
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Hormone of monogamy: the prairie vole and the biology of mating. (brain hormone vasopressin associated with monogamy) (Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...to a mouse-like mammal known as the prairie vole -- not to humans. Scientists just...biologists have noted that the male prairie vole pairs off with a single female, probably...indicates that vasopressin induces the male prairie vole to stay with and protect his mate...
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Prairie Vole Study May Hold Key to Human Love
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...To appreciate the romantic life of the prairie vole, you need to know a bit about what a prairie vole is. THOMAS INSUL, National Institute...in the animal world and the female prairie vole, for example, is smitten by the male...
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Nitrogen requirements of the adult prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster)
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist
; ...maintenance nitrogen requirements of the adult prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) using a nitrogen...1987). Nitrogen requirements of the prairie vole (M. ochrogaster), a microtine inhabitant...inferred nitrogen requirements to interpret prairie vole data may lead to erroneous ...
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More junk makes for better dads.(ZOOLOGY)(Prairie vole parental devotion linke to DNA sequences)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News
; Prairie vole dads are models of dedicated fatherhood...the pups. Earlier research tied the prairie vole's paternal devotion to a long stretch...report on snippet variations within the prairie vole species itself. In specially bred lines...
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Prairie Vole Sex Shatters Romance Myths - Maybe
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; ...some rather disheartening conclusions regarding romance - a Prairie Vole is one the few mammals that behave as humans do - or as humans...They're monogamous - once they mate, a male and female Prairie Vole stay together for good. However, scientists have identified...
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Effects of prairie vole runways on tallgrass prairie.
Magazine article from: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science
; ...nitrogen dynamics, plantanimal interaction, plant biomass, prairie vole, runways. INTRODUCTION Mammalian herbivores impact nitrogen...three lowland sites (units K4B, 10A, and 4F), in active prairie vole colonies. All study si
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The Effect of Female Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) Immigrants on Space Use of Conspecific Female Residents
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist
; ...ABSTRACT.-We tested the hypothesis that female prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) residents change their space...response to immigration pressure. We established prairie vole populations in four 32 32-m enclosures during 2000...
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Asynchronous breeding in the socially monogamous prairie vole.(Report)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Zoology
; ...to determine if a prey species, the monogamously breeding prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster (Wagner, 1842)), breeds synchronously...reproductive success. We discuss our results in the context of the prairie vole mating system. Resume : Au moins deux hypotheses existent...
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The fescue, the fungus, and the prairie vole
Magazine article from: Natural History
; The prairie vole Microtus ochrogaster)-a close relative of the meadow vole and one...ingesting the fungus seemed to delay puberty. When vegetation is lush and prairie vole populations are small, little prevents the voles from increasing...
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