Behavioral competition between infant care and sexual behavior in male but not female common marmosets

Behavioral competition between infant care and sexual behavior in male but not female common marmosets

Sexual desire and parenthood sometimes compete in a sexually dimorphic manner, but the neural mechanism for this remains to be clarified. Here we show that, in the family-living primate common marmoset, fathers temporarily reduce infant care during the postpartum mating period leading to conception,...

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Main Authors: Takuma Kurachi, Kazutaka Shinozuka, Chihiro Yoshihara, Saori Yano-Nashimoto, Ayako Y. Murayama, Junichi Hata, Hideyuki Okano, Atsuko Saito, Kumi O. Kuroda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-07-01
Series:Neuroscience Research
Subjects:
Medial preoptic area
Callithrix jacchus
Parental behavior
Sexual behavior
Paternal care
Muscimol
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016801022500077X
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