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Pair bonding
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Pair bonding
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what mediates its formation and maintenance?
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Dios
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Amanda M.
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1987-
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Amanda M. Dios
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Michael
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Michael Shifflet
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chair
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Cheng
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Mei Fang
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Mei Fang Cheng
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internal member
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Hanson
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Stephen J.
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Stephen J. Hanson
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internal member
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Delgado
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Mauricio
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Mauricio Delgado
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Hauber
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Mark
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Mark Hauber
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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theses
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2015
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2015-05
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2015
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xx
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eng
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Pair bonding is an exclusive mating relationship associating the memory of a mate with the potential successful completion of a breeding cycle. In evolutionary biology, pair bonding has been studied as a mating strategy and this biological phenomenon has been associated with survival related reproductive behaviors, however, behaviors that function in the formation of bonding and those that are established as a result of bonding are seldom distinguished, making it difficult to assess how pair bonding is represented in the brain. This thesis assesses pair bonding in ring doves, an animal that has a predictable sequence leading to a successful breeding cycle. Through a series of lesion, immunohistochemistry, and behavior studies we sought to understand the processing and execution of this fitness-critical complex behavior, by assessing the neural basis of pair bonding, understanding which behavioral events initiate the formation of the bond and how bonding affects an animal's decisions involving a mate. We found a neuro-marker for pair bonding that is more accurate than current methods of measuring bonding and that lesions to this region, the nucleus taeniae, disrupted pair bonding in doves. We showed that pair bonding moderates breeding behaviors, specifically courtship (nest coo) behavior, allowing for changes in these behaviors that can effect neurogenesis and recovery of behavior (nest coo) following lesions to regions associated with regulation of reproductive-endocrine function. We determined that a pair bond in ring doves is formed following the performance of courtship (nest coo) behavior, rather than the completion of the entire breeding cycle, suggesting that doves are using this stage to predict the successful completion of the breeding cycle with their mate, a concept consistent with pair bonding’s role in survival behavior.
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Psychology
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Social behavior
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Kinship
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (xi, 164 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Amanda M. Dios
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T35B04D4
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Dios
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Amanda
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M.
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2015-05-01 18:26:23
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Amanda Dios
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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