Multidimensional nature of dominant behavior: Insights from behavioral neuroscience

Gut microbiota determines the social behavior of mice and induces metabolic and inflammatory changes in their adipose tissue

(2021) Oryan Agranyoni et al.   npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

The social life of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)

(2020) Manon K Schweinfurth   eLife

Stress-induced aggression in heterozygous TPH2 mutant mice is associated with alterations in serotonin turnover and expression of 5-HT6 and AMPA subunit 2A receptors

(2020) Anna Gorlova et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Maternal Programming of Social Dominance via Milk Cytokines

(2020) Faten Taki et al.   iScience

The relationship between individual phenotype and the division of labour in naked mole-rats: it’s complicated

(2020) James D. Gilbert et al.   PeerJ

Link between temperament traits, brain neurochemistry and response to SSRI: insights from animal model of social behavior

(2020) Kateryna Murlanova et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Regulation of volatile and non-volatile pheromone attractants depends upon male social status

(2019) M. Thoß et al.   Scientific Reports

Using the tube test to measure social hierarchy in mice

(2019) Zhengxiao Fan et al.   Nature Protocols

Latency to Reward Predicts Social Dominance in Rats: A Causal Role for the Dopaminergic Mesolimbic System

(2019) Laura Lozano-Montes et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Autism-linked dopamine transporter mutation alters striatal dopamine neurotransmission and dopamine-dependent behaviors

(2019) Gabriella E. DiCarlo et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Evolutionary patterns of major urinary protein scent signals in house mice and relatives

(2019) Michael J. Sheehan et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Social hierarchy position in female mice is associated with plasma corticosterone levels and hypothalamic gene expression

(2019) Cait M. Williamson et al.   Scientific Reports

Acoustical cues for perception of emotional vocalizations in rats

(2019) Yumi Saito et al.   Scientific Reports

Innate sensitivity to stress facilitates inflammation, alters metabolism and shortens lifespan in a mouse model of social hierarchy

(2019) Maryia Bairachnaya et al.   Aging-US

Social dominance hierarchy type and rank contribute to phenotypic variation within cages of laboratory mice

(2019) Justin A. Varholick et al.   Scientific Reports

Specific profile of ultrasonic communication in a mouse model of neurodevelopmental disorders

(2019) Marika Premoli et al.   Scientific Reports

Link between personality and response to THC exposure

(2019) Tetiana Kardash et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

The Visible Burrow System: A behavioral paradigm to assess sociability and social withdrawal in BTBR and C57BL/6J mice strains

(2018) Maria Bove et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Whisker dependent responsiveness of C57BL/6J mice to different behavioral test paradigms

(2018) Seenu Haridas et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Advances in understanding neural mechanisms of social dominance

(2018) Tingting Zhou et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Emergence of cooperation and division of labor in the primitively eusocial waspRopalidia marginata

(2018) Anindita Brahma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social rank-associated stress vulnerability predisposes individuals to cocaine attraction

(2018) Chen Yanovich et al.   Scientific Reports

Social dominance predicts hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor recruitment and resilience to prenatal adversity

(2018) Moshe Gross et al.   Scientific Reports

Inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS2) knockout mice as a model of trichotillomania

(2018) Plinio C. Casarotto et al.   PeerJ

Group social rank is associated with performance on a spatial learning task

(2018) Ellis J. G. Langley et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Stress-induced changes in social dominance are scaled by AMPA-type glutamate receptor phosphorylation in the medial prefrontal cortex

(2018) Min-Jung Park et al.   Scientific Reports

Foraging dynamics are associated with social status and context in mouse social hierarchies

(2018) Won Lee et al.   PeerJ

Presence of a potential competitor and its individual identity modulate ultrasonic vocalizations in male hamsters

(2018) Marcela Fernández-Vargas   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social defeat-induced Cingulate gyrus immediate-early gene expression and anxiolytic-like effect depend upon social rank

(2018) A.H. Basil et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN

Insights from social transmission of information in rodents

(2018) Marie H. Monfils et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

The sexual preference of female rats is influenced by males' adolescent social stress history and social status

(2017) Cheryl M. McCormick et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

A closer look at the subordinate population within the visible burrow system

(2017) Susan J Melhorn et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

The visible burrow system: A view from across the hall

(2017) James P. Herman et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Trait aggressiveness does not predict social dominance of rats in the Visible Burrow System

(2017) Bauke Buwalda et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Rats do not eat alone in public: Food-deprived rats socialize rather than competing for baits

(2017) Omri Weiss et al.   PLoS One

History of winning remodels thalamo-PFC circuit to reinforce social dominance

(2017) Tingting Zhou et al.   SCIENCE

Hippocampal volume, social interactions, and the expression of the normal repertoire of resident-intruder behavior

(2017) Eszter Kalman et al.   Brain and Behavior

Sex Differences in the Regulation of Offensive Aggression and Dominance by Arginine-Vasopressin

(2017) Joseph I. Terranova et al.   Frontiers in Endocrinology

To Group or Not to Group? Good Practice for Housing Male Laboratory Mice

(2017) Sarah Kappel et al.   Animals

A case of natural queen succession in a captive colony of naked mole-rats, Heterocephalus glaber

(2017) L. A. van der Westhuizen et al.   AFRICAN ZOOLOGY

Experimental evidence for reciprocity in allogrooming among wild-type Norway rats

(2017) Manon K. Schweinfurth et al.   Scientific Reports

Temporal dynamics of social hierarchy formation and maintenance in male mice

(2016) Cait M. Williamson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Dominance status predicts social fear transmission in laboratory rats

(2016) Carolyn E. Jones et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Chronic mild stress in submissive mice: Marked polydipsia and social avoidance without hedonic deficit in the sucrose preference test

(2016) Moshe Gross et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Individual recognition of social rank and social memory performance depends on a functional circadian system

(2016) L. Müller et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Rodent models in neuroscience research: is it a rat race?

(2016) Bart Ellenbroek et al.   Disease Models & Mechanisms

Dopamine transporter mutant animals: a translational perspective

(2016) Evgeniya V. Efimova et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROGENETICS

Novel approach to automatically classify rat social behavior using a video tracking system

(2016) Suzanne M. Peters et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

Mice with Shank3 Mutations Associated with ASD and Schizophrenia Display Both Shared and Distinct Defects

(2016) Yang Zhou et al.   NEURON

The Role of Grunt Calls in the Social Dominance Hierarchy of the White-Lipped Peccary (Mammalia, Tayassuidae)

(2016) Selene S. C. Nogueira et al.   PLoS One

Serotonin and arginine–vasopressin mediate sex differences in the regulation of dominance and aggression by the social brain

(2016) Joseph I. Terranova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social inheritance can explain the structure of animal social networks

(2016) Amiyaal Ilany et al.   Nature Communications

Dominance relationships in a family pack of captive arctic wolves (Canis lupus arctos): the influence of competition for food, age and sex

(2016) Simona Cafazzo et al.   PeerJ

Management of obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbid with bipolar disorder

(2016) Firoz Kazhungil et al.   Indian Journal of Psychiatry

Endocrine disruptors alter social behaviors and indirectly influence social hierarchies via changes in body weight

(2015) Benjamin Kim et al.   Environmental Health

Rodent models of treatment-resistant depression

(2015) Barbara J. Caldarone et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Decreased aggression and increased repetitive behavior inPtenhaploinsufficient mice

(2015) A. E. Clipperton-Allen et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

The network motif architecture of dominance hierarchies

(2015) D. Shizuka et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Early onset of cognitive impairment is associated with altered synaptic plasticity and enhanced hippocampal GluA1 expression in a mouse model of depression

(2015) Moshe Gross et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Fragile X mice have robust mGluR5-dependent alterations of social behaviour in the Automated Tube Test

(2015) C.E.F. de Esch et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE

Region-specific associations between sex, social status, and oxytocin receptor density in the brains of eusocial rodents

(2015) S.J. Mooney et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

The brain on stress: Insight from studies using the Visible Burrow System

(2015) Bruce S. McEwen et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Nuance and behavioral cogency: How the Visible Burrow System inspired the Stress-Alternatives Model and conceptualization of the continuum of anxiety

(2015) James M. Robertson et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Sociosexual behaviors and reproductive success of rats (Rattus norvegicus) in a seminatural environment

(2015) Xi Chu et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

A Social Network Approach Reveals Associations between Mouse Social Dominance and Brain Gene Expression

(2015) Nina So et al.   PLoS One

Social dominance in rats: effects on cocaine self-administration, novelty reactivity and dopamine receptor binding and content in the striatum

(2015) Bianca Jupp et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Synapsin IIb as a functional marker of submissive behavior

(2015) Elimelech Nesher et al.   Scientific Reports

Maintenance of dominance status is necessary for resistance to social defeat stress in Syrian hamsters

(2014) Kathleen E. Morrison et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Communication about social status

(2014) Russell D Fernald   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Social insect colony as a biological regulatory system: modelling information flow in dominance networks

(2014) A. K. Nandi et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Sex-Specific Mechanism of Social Hierarchy in Mice

(2014) Wouter E van den Berg et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Enhanced Aggressive Behaviour in a Mouse Model of Depression

(2014) C. R. Yang et al.   NEUROTOXICITY RESEARCH

Social defeat stress induces a depression-like phenotype in adolescent male c57BL/6 mice

(2014) Sergio D. Iñiguez et al.   STRESS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS

The mouse that roared: neural mechanisms of social hierarchy

(2014) Fei Wang et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Scent marking increases male reproductive success in wild house mice

(2013) Kerstin E. Thonhauser et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Why do female mice mate with multiple males?

(2013) Kerstin E. Thonhauser et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Sniffing Behavior Communicates Social Hierarchy

(2013) Daniel W. Wesson   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Animal Communication: Sniffing Is About More Than Just Smell

(2013) Bennett G. Galef   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Allopregnanolone Promotes Success in Food Competition in Subordinate Male Rats

(2013) Magnus Löfgren et al.   NEUROPSYCHOBIOLOGY

Urine Scent Marking (USM): A Novel Test for Depressive-Like Behavior and a Predictor of Stress Resiliency in Mice

(2013) Michael L. Lehmann et al.   PLoS One

High-order social interactions in groups of mice

(2013) Yair Shemesh et al.   eLife

The Resident-intruder Paradigm: A Standardized Test for Aggression, Violence and Social Stress

(2013) Jaap M. Koolhaas et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Traumatic Brain Injury – Modeling Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Rodents

(2013) Oz Malkesman et al.   Frontiers in Neurology

Chronic SSRI Treatment Exacerbates Serotonin Deficiency in Humanized Tph2 Mutant Mice

(2012) William B. Siesser et al.   ACS Chemical Neuroscience

A social network perspective on measurements of dominance hierarchies

(2012) Daizaburo Shizuka et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Antidepressants prevent hierarchy destabilization induced by lipopolysaccharide administration in mice: a neurobiological approach to depression

(2012) Daniel Wagner Hamada Cohn et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Differential responses to distinct psychotropic agents of selectively bred dominant and submissive animals

(2012) Elimelech Nesher et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

The dominance behavioral system and manic temperament: Motivation for dominance, self-perceptions of power, and socially dominant behaviors

(2012) Sheri L. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Development of agonistic encounters in dominance hierarchy formation in juvenile crayfish

(2012) D. Sato et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Individual Variation in Paternal Responses of Virgin Male California Mice (Peromyscus californicus): Behavioral and Physiological Correlates

(2012) Trynke R. de Jong et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Social Context Influences Aggressive and Courtship Behavior in a Cichlid Fish

(2012) Julie K. Desjardins et al.   PLoS One

High and abnormal forms of aggression in rats with extremes in trait anxiety – Involvement of the dopamine system in the nucleus accumbens

(2012) Daniela I. Beiderbeck et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Sniffing and whisking in rodents

(2011) Martin Deschênes et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Adaptive significance of natural variations in maternal care in rats: A translational perspective

(2011) Annaliese K. Beery et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Bidirectional Control of Social Hierarchy by Synaptic Efficacy in Medial Prefrontal Cortex

(2011) F. Wang et al.   SCIENCE

Female urine-induced male mice ultrasonic vocalizations, but not scent-marking, is modulated by social experience

(2010) Florence I. Roullet et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

The role of female dominance hierarchies in the mating behaviour of mosquitofish

(2010) T. Chen et al.   Biology Letters

Critical period for the whisker-barrel system

(2010) Reha S. Erzurumlu   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Selective breeding for dominant and submissive behavior in Sabra mice

(2010) Yuval Feder et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Acute novel stressors modify ethanol intake of psychosocially stressed rats

(2010) Larissa A. Pohorecky   PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR

Behavioural profile predicts dominance status in mountain chickadees, Poecile gambeli

(2009) Rebecca A. Fox et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The Female Urine Sniffing Test: A Novel Approach for Assessing Reward-Seeking Behavior in Rodents

(2009) Oz Malkesman et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Restricted Cortical and Amygdaloid Removal of Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 2 in Preadolescent Mice Impacts Dopaminergic Activity and Neuronal Circuitry of Higher Brain Function

(2009) A. Wallen-Mackenzie et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Social defeat stress potentiates thermal sensitivity in operant models of pain processing

(2008) Catherine A. Marcinkiewcz et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Fasting or feasting in a fish social hierarchy

(2008) Marian Y.L. Wong et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Maternal influences on the sexual behavior and reproductive success of the female rat

(2008) Nicole M. Cameron et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Ultrasonic vocalizations of rats (Rattus norvegicus) during mating, play, and aggression: Behavioral concomitants, relationship to reward, and self-administration of playback..

(2008) Jeffrey Burgdorf et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Scent marking behavior as an odorant communication in mice

(2008) Hiroyuki Arakawa et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Ultrasonic vocalizations: A tool for behavioural phenotyping of mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders

(2008) Maria Luisa Scattoni et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Dynamic instability of the Major Urinary Protein gene family revealed by genomic and phenotypic comparisons between C57 and 129 strain mice

(2008) Jonathan M Mudge et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY