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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Mei, L. et al. _Nature_ 618, 1006–1016 (2023) At birth, young animals are vulnerable, and maternal care is critical to the pup’s survival.
Common maternal behaviors exhibited by female mice include pup retrieval, licking of pups and nest building, which are controlled by neural circuits in the medial preoptic area (MPOA). Less
is known about the mechanisms driving infanticide – a behavior frequently observed in naïve female mice – and how females switch to maternal behaviors during motherhood. This is a preview of
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