Alex G Ophir

Dr. Alexander G. Ophir

Associate Professor

Cornell University

Department of Psychology

Behavioral & Evolutionary Neuroscience

224 Uris Hall

Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

Phone: (607) 255-3714

Email: ophir@cornell.edu

Twitter: @alexophir

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Lee W, Hiura LC, Yang E, Broekman KA, Ophir AG, Curley JP. (2019). Social status in mouse social hierarchies is associated with variation in oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor densities. Hormones and Behavior. in press

Freeman AR, Sheehan MJ, Ophir AG (2019) Anogenital distance predicts sexual odour preferences in African giant pouched rats. Animal Behaviour. 148, 123-132.

Hiura LC, Ophir AG. (2018) Interactions between two stages of early life social experiences and sex shape nonapeptide receptor profiles. Integrative Zoology. 13, 745-760.

Hiura LC, KellyAM, Ophir AG (2018) Age-specific and context-specific responsesof the medial extended amygdala in the developing prairie vole. Developmental Neurobiology. 78, 1231-1245.

Prounis GS, Thomas K, Ophir AG (2018) Developmental trajectories and influences of environmental complexity on oxytocin receptor and vasopressin 1a receptor expression in male and female prairie voles. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 526, 1820-1842.

Kelly AM, Hiura LC, Ophir AG. (2018) Rapid nonapeptide synthesis during a critical period of development in the prairie vole: Plasticity of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Brain Structure and Function. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-018-1640-2.

Kelly AM, Saunders AG, Ophir AG (2018) Mechanistic substrates of a life history transition in male prairie voles: Developmental plasticity in affiliation and aggression corresponds to nonapeptide neuronal function. Hormones and Behavior. 99, 14-24.

Freeman AR, Ophir AG (2018) Scent marking behavior of the Southern African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei). Journal of Mammalogy. 99, 1430-1435.

Rice MA, Restrepo LF, Ophir AG (2018) When to cheat: Modeling dynamics of paternity and promiscuity in socially monogamous prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00141

Stevenson TJ, Alward BA, Ebling FJP, Fernald, RD, KellyAM, Ophir AG. (2018) The value of comparative animal research: Krogh’s principle facilitates scientific discoveries. Policy Insights from the Brain and Behavioral Sciences. 5, 118-125.

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