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    The adrenal gland of the oldfield mouse (Peromyscus polionotus) has a recently evolved cell type that promotes monogamous-typical parenting behaviour and is not present in closely related species.

    • Natalie Niepoth
    • , Jennifer R. Merritt
    •  & Andres Bendesky

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    A detailed analysis of male song structure in zebra finches shows how females use particular features of songs as indicators of male quality in species that learn only one song.

    • Danyal Alam
    • , Fayha Zia
    •  & Todd F. Roberts

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    Single-neuron and population activity in the macaque prefrontal and temporal cortex robustly encodes 24 species-typical behaviours, reciprocity in social interactions and social support.

    • Camille Testard
    • , Sébastien Tremblay
    •  & Michael L. Platt

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    Experiments in mice identify a neural circuit that relays information about infant cries from the maternal auditory thalamus to hypothalamic oxytocin neurons to induce the release of oxytocin and modulate maternal behaviour.

    • Silvana Valtcheva
    • , Habon A. Issa
    •  & Robert C. Froemke

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    | Open Access

    In bats engaged in spontaneous collective spatial behaviour, a robust spatial structure emerges at the group level whereby behaviour is anchored to specific locations, movement patterns and individual social preferences, and many hippocampal neurons are tuned to key features of group dynamics.

    • Angelo Forli
    •  & Michael M. Yartsev

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    | Open Access

    Behavioural electrophysiological and transcriptomic studies in mice show that psychedelic drugs reopen the social reward learning critical period and suggest that this involves reorganization of the extracellular matrix.

    • Romain Nardou
    • , Edward Sawyer
    •  & Gül Dölen

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    ESR1-expressing cells in the principal nucleus of the bed nucleus of stria terminalis are necessary, sufficient and naturally activated during infanticide, and they form reciprocal inhibition with the maternal cells to control young-directed behaviours in female mice.

    • Long Mei
    • , Rongzhen Yan
    •  & Dayu Lin

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    Infection of Caenorhabditis elegans by Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes an increased pheromone response via the pheromone receptor STR-44 and increases mating with males, a potential mechanism for promoting adaptation in the host.

    • Taihong Wu
    • , Minghai Ge
    •  & Yun Zhang

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    | Open Access

    The authors show that, in a chronic social defeat stress rodent model, a subset of male and female mice avoided social interaction with non-aggressive, same-sex juvenile mice and did not develop context-dependent social reward following these encounters.

    • Long Li
    • , Romain Durand-de Cuttoli
    •  & Scott J. Russo

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    Neural recording and closed-loop manipulation during chronic stress in mice reveal causal links between dopamine, behavior and resilience.

    • Lindsay Willmore
    • , Courtney Cameron
    •  & Annegret L. Falkner

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    BNSTprEsr1 activity is required to gate the transition from appetitive to consummatory male social behaviours towards both sexes, by controlling sex- and behaviour-specific representations in VMHvl and MPOA, respectively.

    • Bin Yang
    • , Tomomi Karigo
    •  & David J. Anderson

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    | Open Access

    A tectothalamic pathway for social affiliation in developing zebrafish dissociates neuronal control of attraction from repulsion during affiliation, revealing a circuit underpinning of collective behaviour

    • Johannes M. Kappel
    • , Dominique Förster
    •  & Johannes Larsch

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    In male zebra finches, song practice and courtship song performance are associated with distinct patterns of neural activity in the basal ganglia, resulting in reduced vocal variability during performance.

    • Jonnathan Singh Alvarado
    • , Jack Goffinet
    •  & Richard Mooney

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    Experiments in mice identify the medial septum as an extrahippocampal input region that is critical for social memory formation, and show that modulation of the medial septum by serotonin regulates the stability of social memories.

    • Xiaoting Wu
    • , Wade Morishita
    •  & Robert C. Malenka

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    Deep-brain calcium imaging of mice engaged in social or spatial exploration reveals that these state-dependent behaviours are encoded by distinct neuronal ensembles of the basolateral amygdala.

    • Maria Sol Fustiñana
    • , Tobias Eichlisberger
    •  & Andreas Lüthi

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    Ultrasonic vocalizations of male mice distinguish aggressive, male-directed mounting from reproductive, female-directed mounting behaviours, which are represented by distinct ESR1-expressing populations of neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus and medial preoptic area, respectively.

    • Tomomi Karigo
    • , Ann Kennedy
    •  & David J. Anderson

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    Social memory is consolidated in the brain through the reactivation of neuronal firing by sharp-wave ripples in the CA2 region of the hippocampus, in a similar way to the consolidation of spatial memory.

    • Azahara Oliva
    • , Antonio Fernández-Ruiz
    •  & Steven A. Siegelbaum

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    Galanin-expressing neurons in the medial preoptic area coordinate different aspects of motor, motivational, hormonal and social behaviour associated with parenting by projecting to different brain regions depending on the type of behaviour and sex and reproductive state of mice.

    • Johannes Kohl
    • , Benedicte M. Babayan
    •  & Catherine Dulac

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    Parental care in mice evolves through multiple genetic changes; one candidate is vasopressin, the reduced expression of which promotes parental nest-building behaviour in monogamous mice.

    • Andres Bendesky
    • , Young-Mi Kwon
    •  & Hopi E. Hoekstra

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    Natural isolates of Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes differ in their sensitivity to the anti-exploratory pheromone icas#9, yielding two distinct foraging strategies that possess different survival advantages depending on environmental conditions such as food distribution.

    • Joshua S. Greene
    • , Maximillian Brown
    •  & Cornelia I. Bargmann

  • Letter |

    Lentivirus-based transgenic Macaca fascicularis monkeys are generated expressing the human MECP2 transgene in the brain, and they display behavioural alterations including changes in social interaction and increased anxiety; germline transmission of the transgene to the F1 offspring is shown, and these monkeys also had an altered social interaction phenotype.

    • Zhen Liu
    • , Xiao Li
    •  & Zilong Qiu

  • Letter |

    Sexual dimorphism in neuronal circuits is proposed to underlie sex differences in behaviour, such as virgin female mice acting maternally toward alien pups, while males ignore or attack them; here the authors show that specific tyrosine hydroxylase-expressing neurons in the hypothalamus are more numerous in mothers than in virgin females and males, and that they control parental behaviour in a sex-specific manner.

    • Niv Scott
    • , Matthias Prigge
    •  & Tali Kimchi

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    A study of pup retrieval behaviour in mice shows that oxytocin modulates cortical responses to pup calls specifically in the left auditory cortex; in virgin females, call-evoked responses were enhanced, thus increasing their salience, by pairing oxytocin delivery in the left auditory cortex with the calls, suggesting enhancement was a result of balancing the magnitude and timing of inhibition with excitation.

    • Bianca J. Marlin
    • , Mariela Mitre
    •  & Robert C. Froemke

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