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 occurringvariations in maternal behavior in the rat are associated with differencesin 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 AnimCogn. 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 BoivinX.2015. Filial attachment in sheep: Similarities and differences between ewe-lamb and human-lamb relationships Applied Animal Behaviour Science 164: 12-28.

NumanM. 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.

vonKeyserlingk 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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