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Developmental Social Environment Imprints Female Preference for Male Song in Mice
BACKGROUND: Sexual imprinting is important for kin recognition and for promoting outbreeding, and has been a driving force for evolution; however, little is known about sexual imprinting by auditory cues in mammals. Male mice emit song-like ultrasonic vocalizations that possess strain-specific chara...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3914833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24505280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087186 |
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author | Asaba, Akari Okabe, Shota Nagasawa, Miho Kato, Masahiro Koshida, Nobuyoshi Osakada, Takuya Mogi, Kazutaka Kikusui, Takefumi |
author_facet | Asaba, Akari Okabe, Shota Nagasawa, Miho Kato, Masahiro Koshida, Nobuyoshi Osakada, Takuya Mogi, Kazutaka Kikusui, Takefumi |
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description | BACKGROUND: Sexual imprinting is important for kin recognition and for promoting outbreeding, and has been a driving force for evolution; however, little is known about sexual imprinting by auditory cues in mammals. Male mice emit song-like ultrasonic vocalizations that possess strain-specific characteristics. OBJECTIVES: In this study, we asked whether female mice imprint and prefer specific characteristics in male songs. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We used the two-choice test to determine the song preference of female C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice. By assessing the time engaged in searching behavior towards songs played back to females, we found that female mice displayed an innate preference for the songs of males from different strains. Moreover, this song preference was regulated by female reproductive status and by male sexual cues such as the pheromone ESP1. Finally, we revealed that this preference was reversed by cross-fostering and disappeared under fatherless conditions, indicating that the behavior was learned by exposure to the father's song. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that female mice can discriminate among male song characteristics and prefer songs of mice from strains that are different from their parents, and that these preferences are based on their early social experiences. This is the first study in mammals to demonstrate that male songs contribute to kin recognition and mate choice by females, thus helping to avoid inbreeding and to facilitate offspring heterozygosity. |
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spelling | pubmed-39148332014-02-06 Developmental Social Environment Imprints Female Preference for Male Song in Mice Asaba, Akari Okabe, Shota Nagasawa, Miho Kato, Masahiro Koshida, Nobuyoshi Osakada, Takuya Mogi, Kazutaka Kikusui, Takefumi PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Sexual imprinting is important for kin recognition and for promoting outbreeding, and has been a driving force for evolution; however, little is known about sexual imprinting by auditory cues in mammals. Male mice emit song-like ultrasonic vocalizations that possess strain-specific characteristics. OBJECTIVES: In this study, we asked whether female mice imprint and prefer specific characteristics in male songs. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We used the two-choice test to determine the song preference of female C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice. By assessing the time engaged in searching behavior towards songs played back to females, we found that female mice displayed an innate preference for the songs of males from different strains. Moreover, this song preference was regulated by female reproductive status and by male sexual cues such as the pheromone ESP1. Finally, we revealed that this preference was reversed by cross-fostering and disappeared under fatherless conditions, indicating that the behavior was learned by exposure to the father's song. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that female mice can discriminate among male song characteristics and prefer songs of mice from strains that are different from their parents, and that these preferences are based on their early social experiences. This is the first study in mammals to demonstrate that male songs contribute to kin recognition and mate choice by females, thus helping to avoid inbreeding and to facilitate offspring heterozygosity. Public Library of Science 2014-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3914833/ /pubmed/24505280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087186 Text en © 2014 Asaba et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Asaba, Akari Okabe, Shota Nagasawa, Miho Kato, Masahiro Koshida, Nobuyoshi Osakada, Takuya Mogi, Kazutaka Kikusui, Takefumi Developmental Social Environment Imprints Female Preference for Male Song in Mice |
title | Developmental Social Environment Imprints Female Preference for Male Song in Mice |
title_full | Developmental Social Environment Imprints Female Preference for Male Song in Mice |
title_fullStr | Developmental Social Environment Imprints Female Preference for Male Song in Mice |
title_full_unstemmed | Developmental Social Environment Imprints Female Preference for Male Song in Mice |
title_short | Developmental Social Environment Imprints Female Preference for Male Song in Mice |
title_sort | developmental social environment imprints female preference for male song in mice |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3914833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24505280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087186 |
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