These include wobble base pairs, such as G-U and I-A (inosine-adenine), which have a slightly different geometry and hydrogen bonding pattern. Non-Watson-Crick base pairs can play important roles in ...

Manoli, who wanted to investigate the neurobiology of social bonding, joined Shah’s lab in 2007 as a postdoctoral scholar. For this study, 15 years in the making, the two applied new genetic ...

The team's experiment was designed to disrupt pair-bonding and other oxytocin-related behaviors in prairie voles.These include parenting, milk production, forming social attachments, and socially ...

This pair-bonding behavior is uncommon in the animal world. Prairie voles also exhibit bi-parental care of vole pups. Yet prairie voles are not commonly used in genetic studies in the same way as ...

The study, published in the journal Neuron, comes after decades of research suggesting that behaviors like pair-bonding and parenting depend on oxytocin. Many of those studies involved prairie ...

Prairie voles have long been heralded as models of monogamy. Now, a study suggests that the “love hormone” once thought essential for their bonding — oxytocin — might not be so necessary ...

Discovering the role of ‘love hormone’ oxytocin, in pair bonding could pave the way for improving the lives of people struggling to find a social connection, suggests a new study. The findings ...

Jackals, bat-eared foxes and African wild dogs all mate for life and form a pair bond. All three wild canids breed annually, spending 10 months a year either pregnant or rearing young.

The results indicate that the biology underlying pair bonding and parenting isn't purely dictated by the receptors for oxytocin, sometimes referred to as the "love hormone." "While oxytocin has ...