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Miller CH, Hillock MF, Yang J, Carlson-Clarke B, Haxhillari K, Lee AY, Warden MR, Sheehan MJ. Dynamic changes to signal allocation rules in response to variable social environments in house mice. Commun Biol 2023; 6:297. [PMID: 36941412 PMCID: PMC10027867 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04672-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023] Open
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Urine marking is central to mouse social behavior. Males use depletable and costly urine marks in intrasexual competition and mate attraction. We investigate how males alter signaling decisions across variable social landscapes using thermal imaging to capture spatiotemporal marking data. Thermal recording reveals fine-scale adjustments in urinary motor patterns in response to competition and social odors. Males demonstrate striking winner-loser effects in scent mark allocation effort and timing. Competitive experience primes temporal features of marking and modulates responses to scent familiarity. Males adjust signaling effort, mark latency, and marking rhythm, depending on the scent identities in the environment. Notably, recent contest outcome affects how males respond to familiar and unfamiliar urine. Winners increase marking effort toward unfamiliar relative to familiar male scents, whereas losers reduce marking effort to unfamiliar but increase to familiar rival scents. All males adjust their scent mark timing after a contest regardless of fight outcome, and deposit marks in more rapid bursts during marking bouts. In contrast to this dynamism, initial signal investment predicts aspects of scent marking days later, revealing the possibility of alternative marking strategies among competitive males. These data show that mice flexibly update their signaling decisions in response to changing social landscapes.
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- Caitlin H Miller
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Miller CH, Haxhillari K, Hillock MF, Reichard TM, Sheehan MJ. Scent mark signal investment predicts fight dynamics in house mice. Proc Biol Sci 2023; 290:20222489. [PMID: 36787797 PMCID: PMC9928526 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
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Signals mediate competitive interactions by allowing rival assessment, yet are often energetically expensive to produce. One of the key mechanisms maintaining signal reliability is social costs. While the social costs of over-signalling are well known, the social costs of under-signalling are underexplored, particularly for dynamic signals. In this study, we investigate a dynamic and olfactory-mediated signalling system that is ubiquitous among mammals: scent marking. Male house mice territorially scent mark their environment with metabolically costly urine marks. Competitive male mice are thought to deposit abundant scent marks in the environment. However, we recently identified a cohort of low-marking males that win fights. We hypothesized that there may be social costs imposed on individuals who under-invest in signalling. Here we find that scent mark investment predicts fight dynamics. Winning males that produce fewer scent marks prior to a fight engage in more intense fights that take longer to resolve. This effect appears to be driven by an unwillingness among losers to acquiesce to weakly signalling winners. We, therefore, find evidence for rival assessment of scent marks as well as social costs to under-signalling. This supports existing hypotheses for the importance of social punishment in maintaining optimal signalling equilibria. Our results further highlight the possibility of diverse signalling strategies in house mice.
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- Caitlin H. Miller
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Mertens S, Vogt MA, Gass P, Palme R, Hiebl B, Chourbaji S. Effect of three different forms of handling on the variation of aggression-associated parameters in individually and group-housed male C57BL/6NCrl mice. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0215367. [PMID: 30978250 PMCID: PMC6461241 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Mice are social animals hence group-housing of mice is preferred over individual housing. However, aggression in group-housed male mice under laboratory housing conditions is a well-known problem leading to serious health issues, including injury or death. Therefore, group-housed mice are frequently separated for welfare reasons. In this study, we investigated the effect of 3 different handling methods (tail, forceps, tube) in 2 different housing conditions (single vs. group) on the variance of aggression-associated parameters in male C57BL/6NCrl mice over 8 weeks. Blood glucose concentration, body weight, body temperature, plus number and severity of bite wounds and barbering intensity in group-housed mice were recorded. An assessment of nest complexity was also performed weekly. Feces were collected in week 3 and 7 for analysis of corticosterone metabolites. We also monitored the level of aggression by recording the behavior of group-housed animals after weekly cage cleaning. An open field test followed by a social novel object test, a light/dark box test, a hotplate and a resident-intruder test were performed at the end of the 8-week handling period. Post-mortem, we assessed organ weights. We found that forceps-handled mice, independent of the housing condition, had significantly higher levels of stress-induced-hyperthermia and enhanced aggression after cage cleaning, and they performed worse in the nest complexity test. In addition, handling male mice by the tail seems to be most effective to reduce aggressiveness after transferring animals into new cages, thereby representing an appropriate refinement.
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- Sinja Mertens
- Institute for Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Farm Animal Behaviour and Virtual Center for Replacement—Complementary Methods to Animal Testing, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany
- University of Heidelberg, Interfaculty Biomedical Research Facility (IBF), Heidelberg, Germany
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- University of Heidelberg, Interfaculty Biomedical Research Facility (IBF), Heidelberg, Germany
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- University of Heidelberg, Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH), Mannheim Faculty, Heidelberg, Germany
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- University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Unit of Physiology, Pathophysiology and Experimental Endocrinology, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Farm Animal Behaviour and Virtual Center for Replacement—Complementary Methods to Animal Testing, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany
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- University of Heidelberg, Interfaculty Biomedical Research Facility (IBF), Heidelberg, Germany
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Lin D, Liu J, Kramberg L, Ruggiero A, Cottrell J, Kass IS. Early-life single-episode sevoflurane exposure impairs social behavior and cognition later in life. Brain Behav 2016; 6:e00514. [PMID: 27688943 PMCID: PMC5036436 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2015] [Revised: 05/12/2016] [Accepted: 05/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Single-episode anesthetic exposure is the most prevalent surgery-related incidence among young children in the United States. Although numerous studies have used animals to model the effects of neonatal anesthetics on behavioral changes later on in life, our understanding of the functional consequences to the developing brain in a comprehensive and clinically relevant manner is unclear. METHODS The volatile anesthetic, sevoflurane (sevo) was administered to C57BL6 postnatal day 7 (P7) mice in a 40% oxygen and 60% nitrogen gas mixture. In order to examine the effects of sevo alone on the developing brain in a clinically relevant manner, mice were exposed to an average of 2.38 ± 0.11% sevo for 2 h. No sevo (control) mice were treated in an identical manner without sevo exposure. Mice were examined for cognition and neuropsychiatric-like behavioral changes at 1-5 months of age. RESULTS Using the active place avoidance (APA) test and the novel object recognition (NOR) test, we demonstrated that P7 sevo-treated mice showed a deficit in learning and memory both during periadolescence and adulthood. We then employed a battery of neuropsychiatric-like behavioral tests to examine social interaction, communication, and repetitive behavior. Interestingly, compared to the no-sevo-treated group, sevo-treated mice showed significant reductions in the time interacting with a novel mouse (push-crawl and following), time and interaction in a chamber with a novel mouse, and time sniffing a novel social odor. CONCLUSIONS Our study established that single-episode, 2-h sevo treatment during early life impairs cognition later on in life. With this approach, we also observed neuropsychiatric-like behavior changes such as social interaction deficits in the sevo-treated mice. This study elucidated the effects of a clinically relevant single-episode sevo application, given during the neonatal period, on neurodevelopmental behavioral changes later on in life.
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- Daisy Lin
- Anesthesiology Department SUNY Downstate Medical Center Box 6, 450 Clarkson Ave Brooklyn New York 11203; Department of Physiology and Pharmacology SUNY Downstate Medical Center 450 Clarkson Ave Brooklyn New York 11203
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- Anesthesiology Department SUNY Downstate Medical Center Box 6, 450 Clarkson Ave Brooklyn New York 11203
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- Anesthesiology Department SUNY Downstate Medical Center Box 6, 450 Clarkson Ave Brooklyn New York 11203
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- Anesthesiology Department SUNY Downstate Medical Center Box 6, 450 Clarkson Ave Brooklyn New York 11203
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- Anesthesiology Department SUNY Downstate Medical Center Box 6, 450 Clarkson Ave Brooklyn New York 11203
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- Anesthesiology Department SUNY Downstate Medical Center Box 6, 450 Clarkson Ave Brooklyn New York 11203; Department of Physiology and Pharmacology SUNY Downstate Medical Center 450 Clarkson Ave Brooklyn New York 11203; The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Sciences Brooklyn New York 11203
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Sandnabba NK. Changes in male odours and urinary marking patterns due to inhibition of aggression in male mice. Behav Processes 2014; 12:349-61. [PMID: 24924693 DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(86)90004-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/23/1985] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The effects of active inhibition of aggression on male odours and urinary marking patterns were studied in mice belonging to a highly aggressive strain the TA (Turku Aggressive), which has been developed by selective breeding through 37 generations. These males were defeated by trained fighters until they showed no aggression. Individually housed TA males served as controls. Mice from the parental or Normal Strain, which is intermediate in aggression, were exposed to the odours. The males from the Normal Strain were tested for aggression against male castrates to which urine from the two types of TA males or water had been applied. The urine from the highly aggressive control TA males evoked most aggression. The Normal males were later tested against castrates on soiled sawdust. Fewer attacks occured on sawdust soiled by the urine from the control TA males. The preferences for areas covered with soiled sawdust were also assessed. The males from the Normal Strain preferred areas soiled by the TA males trained to nonaggressiveness while the females preferred areas soiled by the highly aggressive control TA males. Subsequently the size and number of urinary marks deposited were examined. The TA males trained to nonaggressiveness voided urine in fewer but larger pools. The differences showed the same direction as those previously found between the TA and TNA strains, selectively bred for aggression and non-aggression, respectively. In mice the odour signals and urinary marking patterns seem to be correlated with the level of aggressiveness, either hereditarily determined or acquired through learning.
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- N K Sandnabba
- Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi, Vartiovuorenkatu 1, SF-20700 Turku, Finland
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WOLTON ROBERTJ. A possible rôle for faeces in range-marking by the Wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus. J Zool (1987) 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1985.tb05657.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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While the cause of autism remains unknown, the high concordance between monozygotic twins supports a strong genetic component. The importance of genetic factors in autism encourages the development of mutant mouse models, to advance our understanding of biological mechanisms underlying autistic behaviors. Mouse models of human neuropsychiatric diseases are designed to optimize (i) face validity (resemblance to the human symptoms) (ii) construct validity (similarity to the underlying causes of the disease) and (iii) predictive validity (expected responses to treatments that are effective in the human disease). There is a growing need for mouse behavioral tasks with all three types of validity, to define robust phenotypes in mouse models of autism. Ideal mouse models will incorporate analogies to the three diagnostic symptoms of autism: abnormal social interactions, deficits in communication and high levels of repetitive behaviors. Social approach is tested in an automated three chambered apparatus that offers the subject a choice between spending time with another mouse, with a novel object, or remaining in an empty familiar environment. Reciprocal social interaction is scored from videotapes of interactions between pairs of unfamiliar mice. Communication is evaluated by measuring emission and responses to vocalizations and olfactory cues. Repetitive behaviors are scored for measures of grooming, jumping, or stereotyped sniffing of one location or object. Insistence on sameness is modeled by scoring a change in habit, for example, reversal of the spatial location of a reinforcer in the Morris water maze or T-maze. Associated features of autism, for example, mouse phenotypes relevant to anxiety, seizures, sleep disturbances and sensory hypersensitivity, may be useful to include in a mouse model that meets some of the core diagnostic criteria. Applications of these assays include (i) behavioral phenotyping of transgenic and knockout mice with mutations in genes relevant to autism; (ii) characterization of inbred strains of mice; (iii) evaluation of environmental toxins; (iv) comparison of behavioral phenotypes with genetic factors, such as unusual expression patterns of genes or unusual single nucleotide polymorphisms; and (v) evaluation of proposed therapeutics for the treatment of autism.
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- Jacqueline N Crawley
- Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-3730. USA.
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Crawley JN, Chen T, Puri A, Washburn R, Sullivan TL, Hill JM, Young NB, Nadler JJ, Moy SS, Young LJ, Caldwell HK, Young WS. Social approach behaviors in oxytocin knockout mice: comparison of two independent lines tested in different laboratory environments. Neuropeptides 2007; 41:145-63. [PMID: 17420046 DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2007.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2006] [Revised: 01/03/2007] [Accepted: 02/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Oxytocin mediates social affiliation behaviors and social memory in rodents. It has been suggested that disruptions in oxytocin contribute to the deficits in reciprocal social interactions that characterize autism. The present experiments employed a new social approach task for mice which is designed to detect low levels of sociability, representing the first diagnostic criterion for autism. Two lines of oxytocin knockout mice were tested, the National Institute of Mental Health line in Bethesda, and the Baylor/Emory line at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Similar methods were used for each line to evaluate tendencies to spend time with a stranger mouse versus with an inanimate novel object with no social valence. Adult C57BL/6J males were tested identically, as controls to confirm the robustness of the methods used in the social task. Comprehensive phenotyping of general health, neurological reflexes, olfactory and other sensory abilities, and motor functions was employed to assess both lines. No genotype differences were detected in any of the control measures for either line. Normal sociability, measured as time spent with a novel stranger mouse as compared to time spent with a novel object, was seen in both the NIMH and the Baylor/Emory lines of oxytocin null mutants, heterozygotes, and wild-type littermate controls. Normal preference for social novelty, measured as time spent with a second novel stranger as compared to time spent with a more familiar mouse, was seen in both the NIMH and the Baylor/Emory lines of oxytocin null mutants, heterozygotes, and wild-type littermate controls, with minor exceptions. Similar behavioral results from two independent targeted gene mutations, generated with different targeting vectors, bred on different genetic backgrounds, and tested in different laboratory environments, corroborates the negative findings on sociability in oxytocin mutant mice. Intact tendencies to spend time with another mouse versus with a novel object, in both lines of oxytocin knockouts, supports an interpretation that oxytocin plays a highly specific role in social memory, but is not essential for general spontaneous social approach in mice.
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- Jacqueline N Crawley
- Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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The importance of genetic factors in autism has prompted the development of mutant mouse models to advance our understanding of biological mechanisms underlying autistic behaviors. Mouse models of human neuropsychiatric diseases are designed to optimize (1) face validity, i.e., resemblance to the human symptoms; (2) construct validity, i.e., similarity to the underlying causes of the disease; and (3) predictive validity, i.e., expected responses to treatments that are effective in the human disease. There is a growing need for mouse behavioral tasks with all three types of validity for modeling the symptoms of autism. We are in the process of designing a set of tasks with face validity for the defining features of autism: deficits in appropriate reciprocal social interactions, deficits in verbal social communication, and high levels of ritualistic repetitive behaviors. Social approach is tested in an automated three-chambered apparatus that offers the subject a choice between a familiar environment, a novel environment, and a novel environment containing a stranger mouse. Preference for social novelty is tested in the same apparatus, with a choice between the start chamber, the chamber containing a familiar mouse, and the chamber containing a stranger mouse. Social communication is evaluated by measuring the ultrasonic distress vocalizations emitted by infant mouse pups and the parental response of retrieving the pup to the nest. Resistance to change in ritualistic repetitive behaviors is modeled by forcing a change in habit, including reversal of the spatial location of a reinforcer in a T-maze task and in the Morris water maze. Mouse behavioral tasks that may model additional features of autism are discussed, including tasks relevant to anxiety, seizures, sleep disturbances, and sensory hypersensitivity. Applications of these tests include (1) behavioral phenotyping of transgenic and knockout mice with mutations in genes relevant to autism, (2) characterization of mutant mice derived from random chemical mutagenesis, (3) DNA microarray analyses of genes in inbred strains of mice that differ in social interaction, social communication and resistance to change in habit, and (4) evaluation of proposed therapeutics for the treatment of autism.
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- Jacqueline N Crawley
- Mouse Behavioral Phenotyping Laboratory, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
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Mucignat-Caretta C, Bondì M, Caretta A. Endocrine status affects bladder size and postvoid residual urinary volume in mice. Horm Behav 2004; 46:11-8. [PMID: 15215037 DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2004.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2003] [Revised: 11/24/2003] [Accepted: 02/02/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Urine is one of the major media for intraspecific chemical communication in mice. The urination pattern is dependent both on the mice's hormonal and social status. The urination pattern and the morphology of the urinary tract were examined in mice following hormonal manipulations. In the first experiment, we compared pairs of intact and castrated males: intact males urinated earlier when exposed to a new environment, with a greater number of drops that were smaller than those of castrated males. In the second experiment, groups of intact males, castrated, testosterone-supplemented castrated, and isolated intact males were compared. The micturition pattern of isolated intact males consisted of numerous small droplets of urine, with a high volume of urine retained in the bladder after voiding. This also applied to grouped intact males and testosterone-treated castrated mice, while castrated mice voided a larger fraction of bladder content. Bladder weight was higher in intact males and testosterone-treated castrated males, as compared to castrated males. In the third experiment, ovary-intact and testosterone-treated intact females were compared. Testosterone-treated ovary-intact females retained a larger quantity of urine in the bladder and also had a larger bladder compared to ovary-intact females. Testosterone thus induces the morphological modifications of the urinary tract necessary for the dominant male urination pattern, which is an increase in postvoid urinary residual volume and bladder weight. As evidenced from the comparison of histological sections from intact, castrated, and testosterone-treated castrated males, the increase in bladder weight was mainly due to the bladder muscular mass.
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Mucignat-Caretta C. Modulation of exploratory behavior in female mice by protein-borne male urinary molecules. J Chem Ecol 2002; 28:1853-63. [PMID: 12449511 DOI: 10.1023/a:1020521420271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Male pheromones are believed to attract females and repel male mice in open field tests but, when tested in more complex environments, they can attract male mice in usually avoided areas. Females were tested in an apparatus with one dark and one light side, in the absence or presence of male urine or the major urinary proteins (MUPs) bearing the natural ligands. Diestrous females were slower in leaving from the dark area when male urine or MUPs were present in it. Estrogen-primed females showed the opposite behavior, with an increase in the same latency. The light-avoidance behavior of prepubertal females, or females reared without males was not influenced by the presence of male chemosignals. The results show that adult female mice can react to MUP-borne volatiles as to adult male urine and use them as cues of male mice, if they were previously exposed to male cues during infancy. MUP-borne molecules are, thus, the olfactory trace of males in the environment and modulate mice exploratory behavior.
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Discrimination of individual odours by hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) varies with the location of those odours. Anim Behav 2002. [DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Hanley KA, Elliott ML, Stamps JA. Chemical Recognition of Familiar vs. Unfamiliar Conspecifics by Juvenile Iguanid Lizards, Ctenosaura similis. Ethology 1999. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00448.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Drickamer LC. Rates of urine excretion by house mouse (Mus domesticus): Differences by age, sex, social status, and reproductive condition. J Chem Ecol 1995; 21:1481-93. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02035147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/1994] [Accepted: 05/20/1995] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Koyama S. Differential response to the odor of familiar intruder mice in male mice (Mus musculus). J ETHOL 1995. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02352562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Barnard CJ, Hurst JL, Aldhous P. Of mice and kin: the functional significance of kin bias in social behaviour. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1991; 66:379-430. [PMID: 1801946 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.1991.tb01147.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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1. Sharing recent ancestry (kinship) increases the degree of genetic similarity between individuals, where genetic similarity could mean anything from sharing a particular allele to sharing an entire genome. 2. Genetic similarity can influence behavioural and other responses between individuals in a number of ways, discriminatory and non-discriminatory. All are likely to result in kin bias, because of the correlation between genetic similarity and kinship, but only some should be regarded as involving kin discrimination. 3. Non-discriminatory kin bias could arise through close relatives sharing, for instance, physical characteristics (such as those influencing competitive ability), thresholds of behavioural response or requirements for particular resources. 4. Discriminatory kin bias could arise through the direct perception of genetic similarity between individuals (direct similarity discrimination) or the use of cues likely to correlate with genetic similarity (indirect similarity discrimination--of which kin discrimination is one form). Alternatively, it could arise incidentally through mistaken identity or discrimination at some other level, such as species identification. 5. Experiments with laboratory and wild house mice have revealed kin bias in a number of contexts, including (a) parental and infanticidal behaviour, (b) sexual development and behaviour and (c) investigatory behaviour and passive body contact among juveniles and adults. 6. While kin bias in mice has been interpreted as evidence for kin discrimination, there are several problems with such an interpretation. These include (a) pronounced and complex effects of familiarity on discrimination, (b) a high risk of error-proneness in the indirect cues used in apparent kin discrimination and (c) weak and easily disrupted kin bias effects in certain contexts. 7. Consideration of social structure and discriminatory responses within populations of wild house mice leads to an alternative explanation for some kin bias in terms of incidental discrimination based on social group membership. 8. Several results from laboratory experiments suggest incidental discrimination is a more parsimonious explanation than kin discrimination for some intrasexual kin bias in behaviour. However, kin or direct similarity discrimination appears to be the most likely explanation for other aspects of intrasexual kin bias and for intersexual kin bias.
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- C J Barnard
- Behaviour and Ecology Research Group, Department of Life Science, University of Nottingham, UK
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Hurst JL. Urine marking in populations of wild house mice Mus domesticus rutty. I. Communication between males. Anim Behav 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0003-3472(05)80916-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Hurst JL. Urine marking in populations of wild house mice Mus domesticus Rutty. III. Communication between the sexes. Anim Behav 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0003-3472(05)80918-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Volatile compounds from excreta of laboratory mice (Mus musculus). J Chem Ecol 1990; 16:2107-20. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01026923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/1989] [Accepted: 11/29/1989] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Volatiles from feces of wild male house mice. J Chem Ecol 1990; 16:2091-106. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01026922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/1989] [Accepted: 11/29/1989] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Barnard C. Kin Recognition: Problems, Prospects, and the Evolution of Discrimination Systems. ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3454(08)60200-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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Hurst JL. The complex network of olfactory communication in populations of wild house mice Mus domesticus rutty: urine marking and investigation within family groups. Anim Behav 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0003-3472(89)90057-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Drickamer LC. Patterns of deposition of urine containing chemosignals that affect puberty and reproduction by wild stock male and female house mice (Mus domesticus). J Chem Ecol 1989; 15:1407-21. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01012373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/1988] [Accepted: 07/05/1988] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Hurst JL. The functions of urine marking in a free-living population of house mice, Mus domesticus Rutty. Anim Behav 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0003-3472(87)80016-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Halpin ZT. Individual Odors among Mammals: Origins and Functions. ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3454(08)60187-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Jerussi TP, Hyde JF. Circling behavior in mice and rats: possible relationship to isolation-induced aggression. EXPERIENTIA 1985; 41:329-31. [PMID: 4038662 DOI: 10.1007/bf02004494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The relationship between circling behavior (rotation), isolation, and aggression was investigated in normal male mice and rats. Initially the animals were tested for spontaneous nocturnal rotation, then conspecific aggression and muricidal behavior was observed for mice and rats respectively. Subsequently, animals were paired on the basis of net nocturnal rotations and either group-housed or individually housed. Four weeks later all animals were retested for the same behaviors. Spontaneous nocturnal rotation increased significantly for the isolated mice but not for the group-housed animals. Moreover, 9 of the 10 isolates became aggressive and their net rotations were significantly and positively correlated with the number of biting attacks. None of the group-housed mice became aggressive. Rats, on other hand, showed a decrease in rotation and a relationship between rotation and muricidal behavior was not evident. The possible relationship between circling behavior, aggression, and territoriality is discussed.
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Nest-box choice in the laboratory mouse: Preferences for nest-boxes differing in design (size and/or shape) and composition. Behav Processes 1981; 6:337-84. [DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(81)90051-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/19/1981] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hazlett BA. Individual distance in crustacea II. the mantis shrimpGonodactylus oerstedii. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1978. [DOI: 10.1080/10236247809378540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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