Neuropeptides and the evolution of social behavior

Social amnesia in mice lacking the oxytocin gene

Ferguson, J. N., Young, L. J., Hearn, E. F., Matzuk, M. M., Insel, T. R., & Winslow, J. T. (2000) · Nature Genetics · doi:10.1038/77040 · Cited by 1,130

A role for central vasopressin in pair bonding in monogamous prairie voles

Winslow, J. T., Hastings, N., Carter, C. S., Harbaugh, C. R., & Insel, T. R. (1993) · Nature · doi:10.1038/365545a0 · Cited by 948

Oxytocin receptor distribution reflects social organization in monogamous and polygamous voles

Insel, T. R., & Shapiro, L. E. (1992) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.89.13.5981 · Cited by 833

Natural Variation in a Neuropeptide Y Receptor Homolog Modifies Social Behavior and Food Response in C. elegans

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Oxytocin induces maternal behavior in virgin female rats

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The effects of oxytocin and vasopressin on partner preferences in male and female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

Cho, M. M., DeVries, A. C., Williams, J. R., & Carter, C. S. (1999) · Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.1037/0735-7044.113.5.1071 · Cited by 529

A gender-specific mechanism for pair bonding: oxytocin and partner preference formation in monogamous voles

Insel, T. R., & Hulihan, T. J. (1995) · Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.1037/0735-7044.109.4.782 · Cited by 528

Increased affiliative response to vasopressin in mice expressing the V1a receptor from a monogamous vole

Young, L. J., Nilsen, R., Waymire, K. G., MacGregor, G. R., & Insel, T. R. (1999) · Nature · doi:10.1038/23475 · Cited by 488

Development of partner preferences in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): The role of social and sexual experience

WILLIAMS, J. (1992) · Hormones and Behavior · doi:10.1016/0018-506x(92)90004-f · Cited by 471

Ontogeny of the vasopressinergic neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus and their extrahypothalamic projections in the rat brain–presence of a sex difference in the lateral septum

De Vries, G. J., Buds, R. M., & Swaab, D. F. (1981) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/0006-8993(81)90989-6 · Cited by 319

Forebrain peptides modulate sexually polymorphic vocal circuitry

Goodson, J. L., & Bass, A. H. (2000) · Nature · doi:10.1038/35001581 · Cited by 281

Neuroendocrine bases of monogamy

Young, L. J., Wang, Z., & Insel, T. R. (1998) · Trends in Neurosciences · doi:10.1016/s0166-2236(97)01167-3 · Cited by 265

Gonadal hormone actions on the morphology of the vasopressinergic innervation of the adult rat brain

De Vries, G. J., Buijs, R. M., & Sluiter, A. A. (1984) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/0006-8993(84)91157-0 · Cited by 224

Mating in the monogamous male: Behavioral consequences

Insel, T. R., Preston, S., & Winslow, J. T. (1995) · Physiology & Behavior · doi:10.1016/0031-9384(94)00362-9 · Cited by 215

Territorial Aggression and Dawn Song are Modulated by Septal Vasotocin and Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide in Male Field Sparrows (Spizella pusilla)

Goodson, J. L. (1998) · Hormones and Behavior · doi:10.1006/hbeh.1998.1467 · Cited by 213

Oxytocin and Vasopressin Receptors and Species-Typical Social Behaviors

Young, L. J. (1999) · Hormones and Behavior · doi:10.1006/hbeh.1999.1548 · Cited by 211

Neuropeptide families and their receptors: evolutionary perspectives

Hoyle, C. H. V. (1999) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/s0006-8993(99)01975-7 · Cited by 198

Species differences in V₁a receptor gene expression in monogamous and nonmonogamous voles: Behavioral consequences.

Young, L. J., Winslow, J. T., Nilsen, R., & Insel, T. R. (1997) · Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.1037/0735-7044.111.3.599 · Cited by 196

Effect of Intraseptal Vasotocin and Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide Infusions on Courtship Song and Aggression in the Male Zebra Finch ( Taeniopygia guttata )

Goodson, & Adkins‐Regan (1999) · Journal of Neuroendocrinology · doi:10.1046/j.1365-2826.1999.00284.x · Cited by 171

Structural and functional evolution of the vasopressin/oxytocin superfamily: vasopressin-related conopressin is the only member present in Lymnaea, and is involved in the control of sexual behavior

van Kesteren, R. E., Smit, A. B., Lange, R. D., Kits, K. S., Golen, F. A. V., van der Schors, R. C., de With, N. D., Burke, J. F., & Geraerts, W. P. M. (1995) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.15-09-05989.1995 · Cited by 136

Peripheral Pulses of Oxytocin Increase Partner Preferences in Female, but Not Male, Prairie Voles

Cushing, B. S., & Carter, C. S. (2000) · Hormones and Behavior · doi:10.1006/hbeh.1999.1558 · Cited by 136

Comparative neuroanatomy of vasotocin and vasopressin in amphibians and other vertebrates

Moore, F. L., & Lowry, C. A. (1998) · Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Pharmacology Toxicology and Endocrinology · doi:10.1016/s0742-8413(98)00014-0 · Cited by 135

Voles and vasopressin: A review of molecular, cellular, and behavioral studies of pair bonding and paternal behaviors

Wang, Z., Young, L. J., Vries, G. J. D., & Insel, T. R. (1999) · Progress in brain research · doi:10.1016/s0079-6123(08)61589-7 · Cited by 132

Preoptic AVT Immunoreactive Neurons of a Teleost Fish with Alternative Reproductive Tactics

Foran, C. M., & Bass, A. H. (1998) · General and Comparative Endocrinology · doi:10.1006/gcen.1998.7113 · Cited by 110

Serial adult sex change involves rapid and reversible changes in forebrain neurochemistry

Grober, M. S., & Sunobe, T. (1996) · NeuroReport · doi:10.1097/00001756-199611250-00029 · Cited by 90

Systemic and intracerebroventricular injections of vasotocin inhibit appetitive and consummatory components of male sexual behavior in Japanese quail.

Castagna, C., Absil, P., Foidart, A., & Balthazart, J. (1998) · Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.1037/0735-7044.112.1.233 · Cited by 86

Evidence for Conservation of the Vasopressin/Oxytocin Superfamily in Annelida

Satake, H., Takuwa, K., Minakata, H., & Matsushima, O. (1999) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.274.9.5605 · Cited by 79

Brain Vasotocin Pathways and the Control of Sexual Behaviors in the Bullfrog

Boyd, S. K. (1997) · Brain Research Bulletin · doi:10.1016/s0361-9230(97)00213-x · Cited by 71

Oxytocin and rodent sociosexual responses: from behavior to gene expression

M.Witt, D. (1995) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/0149-7634(95)00006-z · Cited by 64

Development of sexually dimorphic vasotocinergic system in the bed nucleus of stria terminalis in chickens

Jurkevich, A., Barth, S. W., Kuenzel, W. J., K�HLER, A., & Großmann, R. (1999) · The Journal of Comparative Neurology · doi:10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19990524)408:1 · Cited by 60

Sexual dimorphism in numbers of vasotocin-immunoreactive neurons in brain areas associated with reproductive behaviors in the roughskin newt

Moore, F. L., Richardson, C., & Lowry, C. A. (2000) · General and Comparative Endocrinology · doi:10.1006/gcen.1999.7424 · Cited by 57

Effect of testosterone on the distribution of vasotocin immunoreactivity in the brain of the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata castanotis

Kimura, T., Okanoya, K., & Wada, M. (1999) · Life Sciences · doi:10.1016/s0024-3205(99)00415-4 · Cited by 38

A Sexual Dimorphism in Hypothalamic Arginine Vasotocin (AVT) Gene Expression and AVT Plasma Levels in the Japanese Quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) in Response to Water Deprivation

Chaturvedi, C. M., Chowdhary, A., Wall, P. T., Koike, T. I., & Cornett, L. E. (2000) · General and Comparative Endocrinology · doi:10.1006/gcen.1999.7400 · Cited by 26

Oxytocin, vasopressin, and the neurogenetics of sociality

Donaldson, Z. R., & Young, L. J. (2008) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1158668 · Cited by 1,645

The Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Newschaffer, C. J., Croen, L. A., Daniels, J., Giarelli, E., Grether, J. K., Levy, S. E., Mandell, D. S., Miller, L. A., Pinto-Martin, J., Reaven, J., et al. (2007) · Annual Review of Public Health · doi:10.1146/annurev.publhealth.28.021406.144007 · Cited by 1,228

The social role of touch in humans and primates: Behavioural function and neurobiological mechanisms

Dunbar, R. I. M. (2010) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.07.001 · Cited by 798

The vertebrate social behavior network: Evolutionary themes and variations

Goodson, J. L. (2005) · Hormones and Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2005.02.003 · Cited by 771

Oxytocin Increases Retention of Social Cognition in Autism

Hollander, E., Bartz, J., Chaplin, W., Phillips, A., Sumner, J., Soorya, L., Anagnostou, E., & Wasserman, S. (2007) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.05.030 · Cited by 693

Beating the boojum: Comparative approaches to the neurobiology of social behavior

Phelps, S. M., Polly Campbell, A., Zheng, D., & Ophir, A. G. (2009) · Neuropharmacology · doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2009.06.043 · Cited by 73

Social creatures: Model animal systems for studying the neuroendocrine mechanisms of social behaviour

Robinson, K. J., Bosch, O. J., Levkowitz, G., Busch, K. E., Jarman, A. P., & Ludwig, M. (2019) · Journal of Neuroendocrinology · doi:10.1111/jne.12807 · Cited by 36

Deconstructing sociality, social evolution and relevant nonapeptide functions

Goodson, J. L. (2013) · Psychoneuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.12.005 · Cited by 206

Neuropeptide Systems and Social Behavior: Noncoding Repeats as a Genetic Mechanism for Rapid Evolution of Social Behavior

Hammock, E. A. D., & Young, L. J. (2007) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b0-12-370878-8/00091-4 · Cited by 1

Oxytocin, vasopressin, and the neurogenetics of sociality

Donaldson, Z. R., & Young, L. J. (2008) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1158668 · Cited by 1,645