捕食风险下黑线仓鼠社会行为 性激素分泌及avp表达分析-analysis of sex hormone secretion and avp expression in social behavior of striped hamster under predation risk.docxVIP

The Study of Social Behavior, Secretion of Sex Hormone and AVP gene Expression on Cricetulus barabensis Under Predation RiskAbstractRodent outbreaking has huge threats to the agricultural production in China being a large agricultural country. In recent years much highly toxic rat poison were used and the abundance were controlled in a short period of time, but inevitably causes serious ecological damage to the environment. Striped hamster (Cricetulus barabensis) is one of the dominant rodent species in most farmland areas at North of China. Its large population caused great damage to agricultural production. In order to protecting the agricultural production, effective and ecological of controlling Cricetulus barabensis must be used.Rodents have been studied for a long time and the former studies focus on the behavior and endocrine, particular on social behavior and hormone secretion. Social behavior is one of the basic content of animal behavioral ecology, including a series of activities after the encounter between individuals within populations and meet. The social behavior of animals is dominated by the nervous system, and inextricably linked with the endocrine system. In thisstudy, striped hamster （Cricetulus barabensis） as the experimental animal and the weaselurine as the source of predation risk, the social behavior, sex hormone content and hypothalamic arginine vasopression (AVP) gene expression levels were detected under natural enemies’ odor. In the beginning, behavioral experiments were performed, to obtain the differences in social behavior of the experimental and control groups, and then the striped hamster (Cricetulus barabensis) were executed to determinate the concentration of fecal hormone and AVP mRNA in the hypothalamus.The experimental results showed that the striped hamster social behavior was strongly influenced by the weasel odor. Between the experimental and control groups, of male investigating behavior frequency, chasing behavior freque