Displays of paternal mouse pup retrieval following communicative interaction with maternal mates

Hong-Xiang Liu, Olga Lopatina, Chiharu Higashida, Hiroko Fujimoto, Shirin Akther, Alena Inzhutova, Mingkun Liang, Jing Zhong, Takahiro Tsuji, Toru Yoshihara, Kohei Sumi, Mizuho Ishiyama, Wen-Jie Ma, Mitsunori Ozaki, Satoshi Yagitani, Shigeru Yokoyama, Naofumi Mukaida, Takeshi Sakurai, Osamu Hori, Katsuji Yoshioka, Atsushi Hirao, Yukio Kato, Katsuhiko Ishihara, Ichiro Kato, Hiroshi Okamoto, Stanislav M. Cherepanov, Alla B. Salmina, Hirokazu Hirai, Masahide Asano, David A. Brown, Isamu Nagano and Haruhiro Higashida ()
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Hong-Xiang Liu: Kanazawa University 21st Century COE Program on Innovative Brain Science on Development, Learning and Memory
Olga Lopatina: Kanazawa University 21st Century COE Program on Innovative Brain Science on Development, Learning and Memory
Chiharu Higashida: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Hiroko Fujimoto: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Shirin Akther: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Alena Inzhutova: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Mingkun Liang: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Jing Zhong: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Takahiro Tsuji: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Toru Yoshihara: Kanazawa University 21st Century COE Program on Innovative Brain Science on Development, Learning and Memory
Kohei Sumi: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Mizuho Ishiyama: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Wen-Jie Ma: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Mitsunori Ozaki: Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University
Satoshi Yagitani: Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University
Shigeru Yokoyama: Kanazawa University 21st Century COE Program on Innovative Brain Science on Development, Learning and Memory
Naofumi Mukaida: Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University
Takeshi Sakurai: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Osamu Hori: Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine
Katsuji Yoshioka: Centre for Cancer Research Institute
Atsushi Hirao: Centre for Cancer and Stem Cell Research, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University
Yukio Kato: Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacotherapeutics, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University
Katsuhiko Ishihara: Kawasaki Medical University
Ichiro Kato: University of Toyama Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Hiroshi Okamoto: Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Stanislav M. Cherepanov: Medical, Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Chemistry, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University
Alla B. Salmina: Medical, Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Chemistry, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University
Hirokazu Hirai: Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi
Masahide Asano: Kanazawa University 21st Century COE Program on Innovative Brain Science on Development, Learning and Memory
David A. Brown: Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
Isamu Nagano: Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University
Haruhiro Higashida: Kanazawa University 21st Century COE Program on Innovative Brain Science on Development, Learning and Memory

Nature Communications, 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2013
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