What is a pair bond?

Mutual wing‐eating between female and male within mating pairs in wood‐feeding cockroach

(2021) Haruka Osaki et al.   ETHOLOGY

Neural correlates of mating system diversity: oxytocin and vasopressin receptor distributions in monogamous and non-monogamous Eulemur

(2021) Nicholas M. Grebe et al.   Scientific Reports

Wild jackdaws respond to their partner's distress, but not with consolation

(2021) Rebecca Hooper et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Degus recognize but do not prefer familiar peers

(2020) Nathan Insel et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

What makes a pair bond in a Neotropical primate: female and male contributions

(2020) Sofya Dolotovskaya et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Of Apples and Oranges? The Evolution of “Monogamy” in Non-human Primates

(2020) Maren Huck et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The evolution of pair‐living, sexual monogamy, and cooperative infant care: Insights from research on wild owl monkeys, titis, sakis, and tamarins

(2020) Eduardo Fernandez‐Duque et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

How to maintain underground social relationships? Chemosensory sex, partner and self recognition in a fossorial amphisbaenian

(2020) José Martín et al.   PLoS One

Multi-year pair-bonding in Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii)

(2020) Alan J. Couch et al.   PeerJ

Attachment in Adulthood: Recent Developments, Emerging Debates, and Future Directions

(2019) R. Chris Fraley   Annual Review of Psychology

Unbalanced biparental care during colony foundation in two subterranean termites

(2019) Lou Brossette et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Evolution of affiliation: patterns of convergence from genomes to behaviour

(2019) Eva K. Fischer et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pair-bonding influences affective state in a monogamous fish species

(2019) Chloé Laubu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pair bonds, reproductive success, and rise of alternate mating strategies in a social carnivore

(2019) David E Ausband   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Dopamine D1-like receptors regulate agonistic components of pair bond maintenance behaviors in male titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus)

(2019) Emily S. Rothwell et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Parental care and neuropeptide dynamics in a cichlid fish Neolamprologus caudopunctatus

(2019) Filipa Cunha-Saraiva et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

An alternative hypothesis for the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in animals

(2019) Julia D. Monk et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evolutionary diversity as a catalyst for biological discovery

(2018) Zachary V. Johnson et al.   Integrative Zoology

Social structure and reproduction of long-tailed porcupine (Trichys fasciculata)

(2018) Aoi Matsukawa et al.   MAMMALIA

Comparative studies of social buffering: A consideration of approaches, terminology, and pitfalls

(2018) Yasushi Kiyokawa et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Variation in social systems within Chaetodon butterflyfishes, with special reference to pair bonding

(2018) Jessica P. Nowicki et al.   PLoS One

Pair bond endurance promotes cooperative food defense and inhibits conflict in coral reef butterflyfish

(2018) Jessica P. Nowicki et al.   Scientific Reports

Specificity in Sociality: Mice and Prairie Voles Exhibit Different Patterns of Peer Affiliation

(2018) Annaliese K. Beery et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Evidence for High Variability in Temporal Features of the Male Coda in Müller’s Bornean Gibbons (Hylobates muelleri)

(2018) Allison R. Lau et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Comparative role of reward in long-term peer and mate relationships in voles

(2018) Nastacia L. Goodwin et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Frank Beach award winner: Neuroendocrinology of group living

(2018) Annaliese K. Beery   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

The neural mechanisms and circuitry of the pair bond

(2018) Hasse Walum et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Pair bond formation leads to a sustained increase in global cerebral glucose metabolism in monogamous male titi monkeys ( Callicebus cupreus )

(2017) Nicole Maninger et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

The Neurobiology of Human Attachments

(2017) Ruth Feldman   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Gray fox home range, spatial overlap, mated pair interactions and extra-territorial forays in southwestern Georgia, USA

(2017) Nicholas R. Deuel et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

Sexual dimorphism in striatal dopaminergic responses promotes monogamy in social songbirds

(2017) Kirill Tokarev et al.   eLife

Effects of pair bonding on dopamine D1 receptors in monogamous male titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus)

(2016) Caroline M. Hostetler et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Oxytocin mediated behavior in invertebrates: An evolutionary perspective

(2016) Meghan A. Lockard et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Species-specific patterns of nonapeptide brain gene expression relative to pair-bonding behavior in grouping and non-grouping cichlids

(2016) Constance M. O'Connor et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Let's stay together? Intrinsic and extrinsic factors involved in pair bond dissolution in a recolonizing wolf population

(2016) Cyril Milleret et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Comparative Perspectives on Oxytocin and Vasopressin Receptor Research in Rodents and Primates: Translational Implications

(2016) Sara M. Freeman et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Distributions of oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptors in the Taiwan vole and their role in social monogamy

(2016) A. R. Chappell et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Oxytocin modulates behavioral and physiological responses to a stressor in marmoset monkeys

(2016) Jon Cavanaugh et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Oxytocin-dependent consolation behavior in rodents

(2016) J. P. Burkett et al.   SCIENCE

Challenges to the Pair Bond: Neural and Hormonal Effects of Separation and Reunion in a Monogamous Primate

(2016) Katie Hinde et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

To pair or not to pair: Sources of social variability with white-faced saki monkeys (Pithecia pithecia) as a case study

(2015) Cynthia L. Thompson   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Tamarins: Insights into monogamous and non-monogamous single female social and breeding systems

(2015) P. A. Garber et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Complex cooperative breeders: Using infant care costs to explain variability in callitrichine social and reproductive behavior

(2015) Samuel L. Díaz-Muñoz   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Development of a partner preference test that differentiates between established pair bonds and other relationships in socially monogamous titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus)

(2015) Sarah B. Carp et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Sexual Orientation Modulates Endocrine Stress Reactivity

(2015) Robert-Paul Juster et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

A Saki Saga: Dynamic and Disruptive Relationships among Pithecia aequatorialis in Ecuador

(2015) Amy M. Porter et al.   FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA

Integrating resource defence theory with a neural nonapeptide pathway to explain territory-based mating systems

(2015) Ronald G Oldfield et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Male fidelity expressed through rapid testosterone suppression of ultrasonic vocalizations to novel females in the monogamous California mouse

(2015) Joshua D. Pultorak et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Behavioural and endocrine correlates to the aardwolf mating system

(2015) David Marneweck et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Putative Pair-Bonding inAgkistrodon contortrix(Copperhead)

(2015) Charles F. Smith et al.   NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST

Forebrain neuropeptide regulation of pair association and behavior in cooperating cleaner fish

(2015) Sónia C. Cardoso et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Brain nonapeptide levels are related to social status and affiliative behaviour in a cooperatively breeding cichlid fish

(2015) A. R. Reddon et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Breaking bonds in male prairie vole: Long-term effects on emotional and social behavior, physiology, and neurochemistry

(2014) P. Sun et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Sexual selection and the evolution of behavior, morphology, neuroanatomy and genes in humans and other primates

(2014) Roscoe Stanyon et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Hypothalamic oxytocin and vasopressin neurons exert sex-specific effects on pair bonding, gregariousness, and aggression in finches

(2014) A. M. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Disruption of social bonds induces behavioral and physiological dysregulation in male and female prairie voles

(2013) Neal McNeal et al.   AUTONOMIC NEUROSCIENCE-BASIC & CLINICAL

Towards improved animal models for evaluating social cognition and its disruption in schizophrenia: The CNTRICS initiative

(2013) Mark J. Millan et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates

(2013) C. Opie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Monogamy with a purpose

(2013) F. B. M. de Waal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxytocin's impact on social face processing is stronger in homosexual than heterosexual men

(2013) Matthias Thienel et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

The Evolution of Social Monogamy in Mammals

(2013) D. Lukas et al.   SCIENCE

Looking after your partner: sentinel behaviour in a socially monogamous bird

(2013) Mark C. Mainwaring et al.   PeerJ

Sex differences in the function of pair bonding in the monogamous convict cichlid

(2012) Joseph M. Leese   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Temporal patterns of den use suggest polygamous mating patterns in an obligate monogamous mammal

(2012) Robynne Kotze et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Behavioral effects of progesterone on pair bonding and partner preference in the female zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

(2012) Kristina O. Smiley et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

 -Opioid Receptors within the Nucleus Accumbens Shell Mediate Pair Bond Maintenance

(2012) S. L. Resendez et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Oxytocin/Vasopressin-Related Peptides Have an Ancient Role in Reproductive Behavior

(2012) J. L. Garrison et al.   SCIENCE

The Dynamics of Group Formation Among Leeches

(2012) Giacomo Bisson et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

The mating biology of termites: a comparative review

(2011) T.R. Hartke et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Same-sex pair-bonds are equivalent to male–female bonds in a life-long socially monogamous songbird

(2011) Julie E. Elie et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Physiological implications of pair-bond status in greylag geese

(2011) C. A. F. Wascher et al.   Biology Letters

Arginine vasotocin neuronal phenotypes and their relationship to aggressive behavior in the territorial monogamous multiband butterflyfish, Chaetodon multicinctus

(2011) Adam K. Dewan et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

The Vertebrate mesolimbic reward system and social behavior network: A comparative synthesis

(2011) Lauren A. O'Connell et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

A Key Ecological Trait Drove the Evolution of Biparental Care and Monogamy in an Amphibian

(2010) Jason L. Brown et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A Hormone-Activated Central Pattern Generator for Courtship

(2010) Daniel A. Wagenaar et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Extra-pair Copulations in a Monogamous Gibbon (Hylobates lar)

(2010) Ulrich Reichard   ETHOLOGY

Mating tactics and paternity in a socially monogamous canid, the bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis)

(2010) Harry W. Y. Wright et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Neuroimaging of Love: fMRI Meta-Analysis Evidence toward New Perspectives in Sexual Medicine

(2010) Stephanie Ortigue et al.   Journal of Sexual Medicine

Neuropeptide regulation of social behavior in a monogamous cichlid fish

(2010) Ronald G. Oldfield et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Association networks reveal social organization in the sleepy lizard

(2009) Stephan T. Leu et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Animal behaviour, animal welfare and the scientific study of affect

(2009) David Fraser   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Varying Ecological Quality Influences the Probability of Polyandry in White-handed Gibbons (Hylobates lar) in Thailand

(2009) Tommaso Savini et al.   BIOTROPICA

Hormones and Sexual Differentiation of Avian Social Behavior

(2009) Elizabeth Adkins-Regan   DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE

Ontogeny of Oxytocin-Like Immunoreactivity in the Cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, Central Nervous System

(2009) Isabelle Bardou et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE

Social buffering of the stress response: Diversity, mechanisms, and functions

(2009) Michael B. Hennessy et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Pair bonding in the female zebra finch: A potential role for the nucleus taeniae

(2009) L.A. Svec et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Same-sex sexual behavior and evolution

(2009) Nathan W. Bailey et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Spatial organisation and intra-specific relationship of the raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides in Central Europe

(2009) Frank Drygala et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

Phytotelm size in relation to parental care and mating strategies in two species of Peruvian poison frogs

(2008) Jason Brown et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Successful same-sex pairing in Laysan albatross

(2008) L. C Young et al.   Biology Letters

Social biology of the wood-feeding cockroach genus Salganea (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae, Panesthiinae): did ovoviviparity prevent the evolution of eusociality in the lineage?

(2008) K. Maekawa et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

The CRF System Mediates Increased Passive Stress-Coping Behavior Following the Loss of a Bonded Partner in a Monogamous Rodent

(2008) Oliver J Bosch et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Extra pair paternity in birds: a review of interspecific variation and adaptive function

(2003) Simon C. Griffith et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY