In addition, we have discovered intraspecific variations in the social behaviors associated with monogamy, which speaks to the genetic and environmental control of social behavior. In addition, we find that manipulations of peptide hormones during development can produce permanent changes in adult social and reproductive behaviors, allowing animals to adust their emotional and social behaviors to external demands. Monogamy and the prairie vole. The monogamous brain. Natural History 104, 12-14.
Stress has sexually dimorphic effects on pair bonding in prairie voles.
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