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Interests

Hormonal, neuroendocrine, and behavioral mechanisms responsible for the development and expression of animal social behavior and social relationships. Recent and current projects from my laboratory include:(a) development of preferences for opposite-sex partners in the socially monogamous zebra finch, (b) hormonal and vocal mechanisms involved in pair formation and maintenance in zebra finches, (c) maternal effects on offspring mediated by maternal sex steroid hormones in egg yolks, (d) neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying species differences in social organization, and (e) cryptic (post-mating) female choice. The common theme is an integrative approach aimed at understanding how function and phylogeny have shaped hormone-brain-behavior relationships.

Behavioral & Evolutionary Neuroscience

Selected Publications

• Adkins-Regan, E. (2005). Hormones and Animal Social Behavior. Princeton University Press.
  
  
• Ruscio, M. G. and Adkins-Regan, E. (2004). Immediate early gene expression associated with induction of brooding behavior in Japanese quail. Hormones and Behavior 46, 19-29.
  
  
• Adkins-Regan, E. (2002). Development of sexual partner preference in the zebra finch: a socially monogamous, pair-bonding animal. Archives of Sexual Behavior 31, 21-27.
  
  

Links

• Department and Field of Neurobiology and Behavior
  
  
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• The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children
  2004-2007 Theme Project of the Cornell University Institute for the Social Sciences
  
  
• Hormones and Animal Social Behavior
  Princeton University Press web page for this 2005 publication by Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
  
  

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