What matters to a mouse? Effects of internal and external context on male vocal response to female squeaks.

ABSTRACT: House mice adjust their signaling behavior depending on the social context of an interaction, but which aspects of context elicit the strongest responses from these individuals is often difficult to determine. To explore how internal and external contextual factors influence how house mice produce and respond to social signals, we assessed how dominant and subordinate male mice differed in their ultrasonic vocalization (USV) production in response to playback of broadband vocalizations (BBVs, or squeaks) when given limited access to a stimulus female. We used a repeated measures design in which each male was exposed to two types of trials with different odor conditions: either just female odors (Fem condition) or female odors in addition to the odors of potential competitors, other males (

SUBMITTER: Leuner LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11838898 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature