Devanand S. Manoli

The paper assembles chromosome-scale diploid genomes of prairie and meadow voles using a single-library approach, identifying a prairie-vole-specific duplication of Avpr1a associated with pair bonding.

The paper uses spatial transcriptomics to identify brain regions enriched for ASD and schizophrenia genes in mice, finding the thalamus, cortex, and hippocampus as key areas.

This paper introduces a method to track multiple animals in social interactions with high accuracy and minimal manual effort by using bidirectional segmentation with object-level memory.

This study shows that oxytocin receptor absence in prairie voles impairs peer relationship formation, stability, and reward, with reduced oxytocin release in the nucleus accumbens.

This study shows that the oxytocin receptor regulates specific aspects of pair bonding and promiscuity in prairie voles by controlling gene expression and neural mechanisms.

This study shows that oxytocin receptor function in the nucleus accumbens sex-specifically regulates pair bonding behaviors and neural activity during social interactions in prairie voles.