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SCIENCE
Volume 350, Issue 6266, Pages 1371-1374Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac5791
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- NSF [IOS-0316451, IOS-1355188]
- NIH [R21 HD059092]
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1355188] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Individual variation in social behavior seems ubiquitous, but we know little about how it relates to brain diversity. Among monogamous prairie voles, levels of vasopressin receptor ( encoded by the gene avpr1a) in brain regions related to spatial memory predict male space use and sexual fidelity in the field. We find that trade-offs between the benefits of male fidelity and infidelity are reflected in patterns of territorial intrusion, offspring paternity, avpr1a expression, and the evolutionary fitness of alternative avpr1a alleles. DNA variation at the avpr1a locus includes polymorphisms that reliably predict the epigenetic status and neural expression of avpr1a, and patterns of DNA diversity demonstrate that avpr1a regulatory variation has been favored by selection. In prairie voles, trade-offs in the fitness consequences of social behaviors seem to promote neuronal and molecular diversity.
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