The prairie vole: an emerging model organism for understanding the social brain.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Trends in Neurosciences

• Publication date

  2010-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.tins.2009.11.006PMID 20005580PMCID PMC2822034
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