title: Displays of paternal mouse pup retrieval following communicative interaction with maternal mates.
abstract: Compared with the knowledge of maternal care, much less is known about the factors required for paternal parental care. Here we report that new sires of laboratory mice, though not spontaneously parental, can be induced to show maternal-like parental care (pup retrieval) using signals from dams separated from their pups. During this interaction, the maternal mates emit 38-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations to their male partners, which are equivalent to vocalizations that occur following pheromone stimulation. Without these signals or in the absence of maternal mates, the sires do not retrieve their pups within 5 min. These results show that, in mice, the maternal parent communicates to the paternal parent to encourage pup care. This new paradigm may be useful in the analysis of the parental brain during paternal care induced by interactive communication.
authors.affiliation: Kanazawa University 21st Century COE Program on Innovative Brain Science on Development, Learning and Memory, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan.
authors.forename: Hong-Xiang
authors.initials: HX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Lopatina
authors.forename: Chiharu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Higashida
authors.forename: Hiroko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fujimoto
authors.forename: Shirin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akther
authors.forename: Alena
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Inzhutova
authors.forename: Mingkun
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsuji
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshihara
authors.forename: Kohei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sumi
authors.forename: Mizuho
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishiyama
authors.forename: Wen-Jie
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Mitsunori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozaki
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yagitani
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: Naofumi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mukaida
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hori
authors.forename: Katsuji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshioka
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hirao
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Katsuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ishihara
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: Stanislav M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Cherepanov
authors.forename: Alla B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Salmina
authors.forename: Hirokazu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hirai
authors.forename: Masahide
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asano
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Isamu
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nagano
authors.forename: Haruhiro
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Higashida
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D055696:Olfactory Perception / Q000502:physiology; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D012919:Social Behavior; D014465:Ultrasonics; D014828:Vocalization, Animal / Q000502:physiology*