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It’s not you, it’s my genes: Sexual fidelity tradeoffs in prairie voles

Posted on 15 December, 2015 by Noah Snyder-Mackler

Many of you may probably already know the monogamous prairie vole as the yin to the promiscuous montane vole’s yang. Prairie voles are socially monogamous, which is an extremely rare trait among mammals. This trait has made the prairie vole … Continue reading →

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