Data from: Rates of female mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are low and are not modulated by estrous state during interactions with muted males

Malone, Cassidy A.; Ziobro, Patryk; Khinno, Julia; Tschida, Katherine A.

Data from: Rates of female mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are low and are not modulated by estrous state during interactions with muted males

dc.contributor.author	Malone, Cassidy A.
dc.contributor.author	Ziobro, Patryk
dc.contributor.author	Khinno, Julia
dc.contributor.author	Tschida, Katherine A.
dc.date.accessioned	2025-02-12T23:10:55Z
dc.date.available	2025-02-12T23:10:55Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description	Please cite as: Cassidy A. Malone, Patryk Ziobro, Julia Khinno, and Katherine A. Tschida. (2025) Data from: Rates of female mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are low and are not modulated by estrous state during interactions with muted males. [dataset] Cornell University eCommons Repository. https://doi.org/10.7298/XJWN-1A66
dc.description.abstract	These files contain data supporting all results in Malone et al., Rates of female mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are low and are not modulated by estrous state during interactions with muted males. In Malone et al., we tested the idea that courtship vocalizations produced by female mice are regulated by estrous state. Adult male mice produce high rates of ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) during courtship interactions with females. It was long thought that only males produced courtship USVs, but recent studies using microphone arrays to assign USVs to individual signalers report that females produce a portion (5-18%) of total courtship USVs. The factors that regulate female courtship USV production are poorly understood. Here, we tested the idea that female courtship USV production is regulated by estrous state. To facilitate the detection of female USVs, we paired females with males that were muted for USV production via caspase-mediated ablation of midbrain neurons that are required for USV production. We report that total USVs recorded during interactions between group-housed B6 females and muted males are low and are not modulated by female estrous state. Similar results were obtained for single-housed B6 females and for single-housed outbred wild-derived female mice paired with muted males. These findings suggest either that female mice produce substantial rates of courtship USVs only when interacting with vocal male partners or that prior studies have overestimated female courtship USV production. Studies employing methods that can unambiguously assign USVs to individual signalers, regardless of inter-mouse distances, are needed to distinguish between these possibilities.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7298/XJWN-1A66
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/116706
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.rights	CC0 1.0 Universal	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/	*
dc.subject	mouse	en_US
dc.subject	vocalization	en_US
dc.subject	female	en_US
dc.title	Data from: Rates of female mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are low and are not modulated by estrous state during interactions with muted males	en_US
dc.type	dataset	en_US
schema.accessibilitySummary	Due to the nature of the recordings, the audio (.wav; mouse vocalization, no spoken language) and video files (.mp4, sessions of isolated mice) in this dataset do not contain transcripts.	en_US