This gene is associated with mating behaviour in vole studies, and in human research with marital difficulties.
It can disturb wildlife, including rare creatures, such as the water vole.
Cheaper by far to hire a pen that can attack Hillary Clinton's hair, moan about the commute or write, "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole".
To scientists, it is not only ponderable but increasingly open to scrutiny the more so now that Zoe Donaldson and her colleagues at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, have succeeded in creating a new kind of transgenic prairie vole.
For, unlikely as it might seem, these tiny rodents could be the key to understanding bonding, trust and even decision-making in humans.For those unfamiliar with the delightful prairie vole, it is a small rodent found in the grasslands of central North America.
Shall I compare thee to a prairie vole?
Top of the list in North America, for example, were the montane vole and the northern grasshopper mouse.
Vole populations contract.
The muskrat is a robust vole weighing up to 1.8 kg (4 pounds).
This study in turn led to his research on the fluctuations in Britain's mouse and vole populations as they were affected by their changing environmental conditions.
One point is scored for winning three or four tricks and two points for winning all five tricks ("the vole").
