From neurons to nests: nest-building behaviour as a model in behavioural and comparative neuroscience.
From neurons to nests: nest-building behaviour as a model in behavioural and comparative neuroscience.
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DOI：
10.1007/s10336-015-1214-5
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发表时间：
2015
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1.3
通讯作者：
Healy SD
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作者：
Hall ZJ;Meddle SL;Healy SD
尽管观察了几个世纪以来大多数现存鸟类的筑巢过程，但令人惊讶的是，我们对鸟类如何筑巢知之甚少，尤其是鸟类大脑如何控制筑巢。在这里，我们认为鸟类筑巢可能是研究大脑如何控制行为的一个有用的行为模式。具体地说，我们认为，作为一种行为模型，筑巢提供了一个独特的机会，不仅可以研究大脑控制单个物种个体行为的机制，还可以研究进化如何塑造大脑，使筑巢行为产生种间差异。在这篇综述中，我们概述了行为和比较神经科学中可以用来解决筑巢问题的问题，总结了关于实验室饲养的斑雀和跨物种建造不同筑巢结构的筑巢神经生物学的最新研究成果，并提出了未来筑巢神经生物学的一些方向。
Despite centuries of observing the nest building of most extant bird species, we know surprisingly little about how birds build nests and, specifically, how the avian brain controls nest building. Here, we argue that nest building in birds may be a useful model behaviour in which to study how the brain controls behaviour. Specifically, we argue that nest building as a behavioural model provides a unique opportunity to study not only the mechanisms through which the brain controls behaviour within individuals of a single species but also how evolution may have shaped the brain to produce interspecific variation in nest-building behaviour. In this review, we outline the questions in both behavioural and comparative neuroscience that nest building could be used to address, summarize recent findings regarding the neurobiology of nest building in lab-reared zebra finches and across species building different nest structures, and suggest some future directions for the neurobiology of nest building.