Divergent neural nodes are species‐ and hormone‐dependent in the brood parasitic brain

• Published in: Genes, brain and behavior Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. e12907 - n/a
• Main Authors: Duque, Fernanda G., Azam, Asma, Kaur, Amanpreet, Pao, Rachel, Lynch, Kathleen S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2024; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Abundance; Animals; bed nucleus stria terminalis; Brain; Brain - metabolism; Brood parasitism; Corticotropin-releasing hormone; Female; Nesting Behavior; Nests; Neuropeptides; Original; Oxytocin; Oxytocin - analogs & derivatives; Oxytocin - genetics; Oxytocin - metabolism; Oxytocin - pharmacology; Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus - metabolism; Paraventricular nucleus; parental care; Preoptic area; Preoptic Area - metabolism; Prolactin; Septal Nuclei - metabolism; Social behavior; social behavior network; social neuropeptides; Songbirds - genetics; Species; Species Specificity; Stria terminalis; parental care; social behavior network; preoptic area; social neuropeptides; bed nucleus stria terminalis; paraventricular nucleus

Avian brood parasitism is an evolutionarily derived behavior for which the neurobiological mechanisms are mostly unexplored. We aimed to identify brain regions that have diverged in the brood‐parasitic brain using relative transcript abundance of social neuropeptides and receptors. We compared behav...