Reading list PhD course Maternal and Neonatal Behaviour
Algers and Uvnäs-Moberg 2007. Maternal behaviour in pigs. Hormones and behaviour 52: 78-85.
Beery A.K., Francis D.D. 2011. Adaptive significance of natural variations in maternal care in rats: A translational
perspective. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews 35: 1552-1561.
Champagne F., Diorio J., Sharma S., Meaney M.J. 2001. Naturally occurring variations in maternal behavior in
the rat are associated with differences in estrogen-inducible central oxytocin receptors. PNAS 98: 12736-41.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.221224598.
Champagne F.A., Curley J.P., Swaney, W.T. 2009. Paternal influence on female behaviour: The role of Peg3in
exploration, olfaction and the neuroendocrine regulation of maternal behaviour of female mice. Behavioral
Neuroscience 123: 469-480.
Christensen, J.W. 2015. Early-life object exposure with a habituated mother reduces fear reactions in foals
Animal Cognition Anim Cogn. DOI 10.1007/s10071-015-0924-7.
Damm B.I., Forkman B., Pedersen L.J. 2005. Lying down and rolling behaviour in sows in relation to piglet
crushing: A review. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 90: 3-20.
Drake A., Fraser D., Weary, D.M. 2008. Parent-offspring resource allocation in domestic pigs. Behav. Ecol.
Sociobiol. 62: 309-319.
Dwyer C.M. 2008. Individual variation in the expression of maternal behaviour. A review of the neuroendocrine
mechanisms in the sheep. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 20: 526-534.
Dwyer C.M. 2014. Maternal behaviour and lamb survival: from neuroendocrinology to practical application.
Animal 8: 102-112.
Langer P., 2008. The phases of maternal investment in eutherian mammals. Zoology 111: 148-162.
Malmkvist J., Palme R. 2008. Periparturient nest building: implications for parturition, kit survival, maternal
stress and behaviour in farmed mink (Mustela vison). Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 114: 270-283.
Malmkvist J., Palme R. 2015. Early transfer of mated females into the maternity unit reduces stress and
increases maternal care in farm mink. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 167: 56-64.
Mateo J. 2014. Development, Maternal effects, and Behavioral plasticity. Integrative and Comparative Biology
54: 841-849.
Meaney M.J. 2001. Maternal care, gene expression, and the transmission of individual differences in stress
reactivity across generations. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 24: 1161-1192.
Nowak R. and Boivin X. 2015. Filial attachment in sheep: Similarities and differences between ewe-lamb and
human-lamb relationships Applied Animal Behaviour Science 164: 12-28.
Numan M. 2007. Motivational Systems and the Neural Circuitry of Maternal Behavior in the Rat. Developmental
Psychobiology 49: 12-21.
Peaker M. 2002. The Mammary gland in mammalian evolution: A brief commentary on some of the concepts. J.
Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia 7: 347-353.
Pedersen L.J., Malmkvist J., Andersen H.M-L. 2013. Housing of sows during farrowing: A review on pen design,
welfare and productivity. In “Livestock housing: Modern management to ensure optimal health and welfare of
farm animal” P 93-111. DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-771-4_05.
Proudfoot K.L., Jensen M.B., Weary D.M., von Keyserlingk M.A.G. 2014. Dairy cows seek isolation at calving and
when ill. J. Dairy Sci. 97: 2731–2739.
Westin R., Hultgren J., Algers B. 2015. Strategic use of straw increases nest building in loose housed farrowing
sows. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 166: 63-70.
Supplementary reading materials:
Trivers R. 1974. Parent-Offspring Conflict. American Zoologist 14, 1: 249-264.
von Keyserlingk M.A.G. and Weary D.M. 2007. Maternal behavior in cattle. Horm. Behav. 52: 106-113.
Macri S., Würbel H. 2006. Developmental plasticity of HPA and fear responses in rats: A critical review of the
maternal mediation hypothesis. Hormones and Behavior 50: 667-680.
Parker K.J., Maestripieri D. 2011. Identifying key features of early stressful experiences that produce stress
vulnerability and resilience in primates. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews 35: 1466-1483.
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