Genetically identical mice express alternative reproductive tactics depending on social conditions in the field

MN Zipple, CC Vogt… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In many species, establishing and maintaining a territory is critical to survival and
reproduction, and an animal's ability to do so is strongly influenced by the presence and …

Validation of a non-food or water motivated effort-based foraging task as a measure of motivational state in male mice

F Xeni, C Marangoni, MG Jackson - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2024 - nature.com
Disorders of motivation such as apathy syndrome are highly prevalent across neurological
disorders but do not yet have an agreed treatment approach. The use of translational …

Induction of territorial behavior and dominance hierarchies in laboratory mice

D Battivelli, L Boldrini, M Jaiswal, P Patil, S Torchia… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Territorial behaviors comprise a set of coordinated actions and response patterns found
across animal species that promote the exclusive access to resources. House mice are …

Social neuroscience: When more is merrier

M El-Kalliny, ZR Donaldson - Current Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
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Fantastic beasts and how to study them: rethinking experimental animal behavior

SS Ding, JL Fox, A Gordus, A Joshi… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Humans have been trying to understand animal behavior at least since recorded history.
Recent rapid development of new technologies has allowed us to make significant progress …

Sociability genetically separable from social hierarchy in amniotes

X Lin, G Dai, S Zhou, Y Li, YH Pan, H Li - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The emergence of social structure and organization is essential for the evolution of
amniotes, including human beings. Sociability and social hierarchy are two key features to …

Seasonality of the estrus cycle in laboratory mice under constant conditions

TM Reichard, CH Miller, J Yang, MJ Sheehan - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Seasonality governs every aspect of life in the natural environment. Controlled laboratory
settings are intended to keep animals under a constant set of environmental cues with no …

Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice

N Jourjine, C Goedecker, B König, AK Lindholm - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
House mice (Mus musculus domesticus) are among the most widely studied laboratory
models of mammalian social behavior, yet we know relatively little about the ecology of their …

Rewilding alters mouse epigenetic aging

MN Zipple, I Zhao, DC Kuo, SM Lee, MJ Sheehan… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The aging of mammalian epigenomes fundamentally alters cellular functions, and such
changes are the focus of many healthspan and lifespan studies. However, studies of this …

Publisher Correction: Female behavior drives the formation of distinct social structures in C57BL/6J versus wild-derived outbred mice in field enclosures

CC Vogt, MN Zipple, DD Sprockett, CH Miller… - BMC biology, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• The term,'two by four'was changed to '2× 4'.• Two instances of the term 'ad libitum'were
italicised.• The sentence,'The numbers reported here are the average number of hours …