Correction: Mouse vocal emission and acoustic complexity do not scale linearly with the size of a social group

Warren, Megan R.; Spurrier, Morgan S.; Sangiamo, Daniel T.; Clein, Rachel S.; Neunuebel, Joshua P.

doi:10.1242/jeb.243045

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“…While the present results maintain that female mice vocalize, the fraction appears to be lower than previously thought. We, however, emphasize that this conclusion still requires further study under different social contexts, for example, interaction of more mice as in some of the previous studies ( Warren et al, 2021 ; Sangiamo et al, 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 70%

“…USVs have been extensively studied in mice, where their communicative significance has been widely demonstrated by their influence on conspecific behavior ( Hammerschmidt et al, 2009 ; Pultorak et al, 2017 ; Chabout et al, 2015 ; Musolf et al, 2015 ; Sugimoto et al, 2011 ; Tschida et al, 2019 ; also in line with observational studies; Warren et al, 2020 ; Nicolakis et al, 2020 ; Rieger et al, 2021 ; Petric and Kalcounis-Rueppell, 2013 ). USVs can be grouped into different types that are highly context-dependent ( Chabout et al, 2015 ; Musolf et al, 2015 ; Nicolakis et al, 2020 ; Chen et al, 2021 ; de Chaumont et al, 2021 ; Castellucci et al, 2018 ; Pultorak et al, 2018 ; Burke et al, 2018 ; Zala et al, 2017a ; Mun et al, 2015 ; von Merten et al, 2014 ; Scattoni et al, 2009 ; Warren et al, 2021 ; Dou et al, 2018 ; Hoier et al, 2016 ; Chabout et al, 2012 ), and USV syntax itself is predictive of USV sequence ( Hertz et al, 2020 ). Taken together, the current literature suggests USVs convey affective and social information in different behavioral contexts.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Rodent ultrasonic vocal interaction resolved with millimeter precision using hybrid beamforming

Sterling

Teunisse

Englitz

2023

eLife

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Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) fulfill an important role in communication and navigation in many species. Because of their social and affective significance, rodent USVs are increasingly used as a behavioral measure in neurodevelopmental and neurolinguistic research. Reliably attributing USVs to their emitter during close interactions has emerged as a difficult, key challenge. If addressed, all subsequent analyses gain substantial confidence. We present a hybrid ultrasonic tracking system, HyVL, that synergistically integrates a high-resolution acoustic camera with high-quality ultrasonic microphones. HyVL is the first to achieve millimeter precision (~3.4-4.8mm, 91% assigned) in localizing USVs, ~3x better than other systems, approaching the physical limits (mouse snout ~ 10mm). We analyze mouse courtship interactions and demonstrate that males and females vocalize in starkly different relative spatial positions, and that the fraction of female vocalizations has likely been overestimated previously due to imprecise localization. Further, we find that when two male mice interact with one female, one of the males takes a dominant role in the interaction both in terms of the vocalization rate and the location relative to the female. HyVL substantially improves the precision with which social communication between rodents can be studied. It is also affordable, open-source, easy to set up, can be integrated with existing setups, and reduces the required number of experiments and animals.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 70%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rodent ultrasonic vocal interaction resolved with millimeter precision using hybrid beamforming

Sterling

Teunisse

Englitz

2023

eLife

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“…4A-C). While most previous studies have considered USV acoustic variability by placing USVs into categories defined either by the experimenter or with the help of machine learning (Burkett et al, 2015;Coffey et al, 2019;Fonseca et al, 2021;Holy & Guo, 2005;Van Segbroeck et al, 2017;Vogel et al, 2019Vogel et al, , 2019Warren et al, 2021).…”

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Rates but not acoustic features of ultrasonic vocalizations are related to non-vocal behaviors in mouse pups

Pranic

Kornbrek

Yang

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Mouse pups produce ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in response to isolation from the nest (i.e., isolation USVs). Rates and acoustic features of isolation USVs change dramatically over the first two weeks of life, and there is also substantial variability in the rates and acoustic features of isolation USVs at a given postnatal age. The factors that contribute to within-age variability in isolation USVs remain largely unknown. Here, we explore the extent to which non-vocal behaviors of mouse pups relate to the within-age variability in rates and acoustic features of their USVs. We recorded non-vocal behaviors of isolated C57BL/6J mouse pups at four postnatal ages (postnatal days 5, 10, 15, and 20), measured rates of isolation USV production, and applied a combination of hand-picked acoustic feature measurements and an unsupervised machine learning-based vocal analysis method to examine USV acoustic features. When we considered different categories of non-vocal behavior, our analyses revealed that mice in all postnatal age groups produce higher rates of isolation USVs during active non-vocal behaviors than when lying still. Moreover, rates of isolation USVs are correlated with the intensity (i.e., magnitude) of non-vocal body and limb movements within a given trial. In contrast, USVs produced during different categories of non-vocal behaviors and during different intensities of non-vocal movement do not differ substantially in their acoustic features. Our findings suggest that levels of behavioral arousal contribute to within-age variability in rates, but not acoustic features, of mouse isolation USVs.

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“…Other rodent species show changes in the acoustic features of their vocalizations based upon their social context (Chabout et al, 2012(Chabout et al, , 2015Warren et al, 2021). Therefore, we next aimed to determine whether this also held for prairie vole pups.…”

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“…Prairie voles, like other rodents, emit ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) above the range of human hearing during social interactions (Holy and Guo, 2005;Arriaga and Jarvis, 2013;Rieger and Marler, 2018). Adult males, similar to other rodent models (Chabout et al, 2012(Chabout et al, , 2015Warren et al, 2021), modify their vocal activity based upon their social context (Lepri et al, 1988;Ma et al, 2014), increasing both the number and complexity of USVs in the presence of an unfamiliar female. Males do not, however, change their vocal behavior in the presence of a same-sex sibling (Ma et al, 2014).…”

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Maturation of Social-Vocal Communication in Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) Pups

Warren

Campbell

Borie

et al. 2022

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Impairments in social communication are common among neurodevelopmental disorders. While traditional animal models have advanced our understanding of the physiological and pathological development of social behavior, they do not recapitulate some aspects where social communication is essential, such as biparental care and the ability to form long-lasting social bonds. Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) have emerged as a valuable rodent model in social neuroscience because they naturally display these behaviors. Nonetheless, the role of vocalizations in prairie vole social communication remains unclear. Here, we studied the ontogeny [from postnatal days (P) 8–16] of prairie vole pup ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs), both when isolated and when the mother was present but physically unattainable. In contrast to other similarly sized rodents such as mice, prairie vole pups of all ages produced isolation USVs with a relatively low fundamental frequency between 22 and 50 kHz, often with strong harmonic structure. Males consistently emitted vocalizations with a lower frequency than females. With age, pups vocalized less, and the acoustic features of vocalizations (e.g., duration and bandwidth) became more stereotyped. Manipulating an isolated pup's social environment by introducing its mother significantly increased vocal production at older (P12–16) but not younger ages, when pups were likely unable to hear or see her. Our data provide the first indication of a maturation in social context-dependent vocal emission, which may facilitate more active acoustic communication. These results help lay a foundation for the use of prairie voles as a model organism to probe the role of early life experience in the development of social-vocal communication.

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Correction: Mouse vocal emission and acoustic complexity do not scale linearly with the size of a social group

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Rodent ultrasonic vocal interaction resolved with millimeter precision using hybrid beamforming

Rodent ultrasonic vocal interaction resolved with millimeter precision using hybrid beamforming

Rates but not acoustic features of ultrasonic vocalizations are related to non-vocal behaviors in mouse pups

Maturation of Social-Vocal Communication in Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) Pups

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