In addition to the standard Watson-Crick base pairs, there are also non-canonical base pairs that can form in certain situations. These include wobble base pairs, such as G-U and I-A (inosine-adenine) ...

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 ...

The finding that pair bonding occurs without oxytocin came as a surprise to the team who did the experiment. "We were shocked because that was really, really not what we expected, says Manoli, who ...

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 ...

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.

A storm of brain activity across 68 brain regions that correlate to mating, bonding and the emergence of an enduring bond precedes pair bonding in monogamous voles, reports a new study.

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." ...