Song Control Nuclei in Male and Female Large-Billed Crows (Corvus macrorhynchos)

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 771-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Wang ◽  
YingYu Sun ◽  
XueBo Zhang ◽  
ShaoJu Zeng ◽  
WenQing Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Male And Female ◽  
Song Control Nuclei ◽  
Corvus Macrorhynchos ◽  
Song Control

scholarly journals Seasonal changes in the song control nuclei of the Rufous‐bellied Thrush, Turdus rufiventris (Oscine, Passeriformes, and Turdidae)

2019 ◽  
Vol 332 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Jamily Lorena ◽  
Christopher R. Olson ◽  
Carla S. Fontana ◽  
Claudio V. Mello ◽  
Maria Paula C. Schneider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Changes ◽  
Song Control Nuclei ◽  
Song Control

Auditory-vocal cholinergic pathway in the songbird brain

2000 ◽  
Vol 78 (12) ◽  
pp. 1072-1076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Li ◽  
Ikuo Taniguchi ◽  
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Keyword(s):  
Zebra Finch ◽  
Basal Forebrain ◽  
Cholinergic Neurons ◽  
Auditory Pathway ◽  
Song Learning ◽  
Cholinergic Innervation ◽  
Auditory Information ◽  
Cholinergic Pathway ◽  
Song Control Nuclei ◽  
Song Control

Male zebra finches learn to imitate a tutor's song through auditory and motor learning. The two main song control nuclei in the zebra finch forebrain, the higher vocal center (HVC) and the robust nucleus of the archistriatum (RA), receive cholinergic innervation from the ventral paleostriatum (VP) of the basal forebrain which may play a key role in song learning. By injecting neuroanatomical tracers, we found a topographically segregated pathway from nucleus ovoidalis (Ov) to VP that in turn projects in a topographic fashion to HVC and RA. Ov is a major relay in the main ascending auditory pathway. The results suggest that the cholinergic neurons in the VP responsible for song learning are regulated by auditory information from the Ov.Key words: auditory pathway, cholinergic pathway, song control nucleus, zebra finch.

In vivo MR imaging of the seasonal volumetric and functional plasticity of song control nuclei in relation to song output in a female songbird

NeuroImage ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 981-992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Van Meir ◽  
Denitza Pavlova ◽  
Marleen Verhoye ◽  
Rianne Pinxten ◽  
Jacques Balthazart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mr Imaging ◽  
Functional Plasticity ◽  
Song Control Nuclei ◽  
Song Control

scholarly journals Androgen Receptor, Estrogen Receptor α, and Estrogen Receptorβ Show Distinct Patterns of Expression in Forebrain Song Control Nuclei of European Starlings1

Endocrinology ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 140 (10) ◽  
pp. 4633-4643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Bernard ◽  
George E. Bentley ◽  
Jacques Balthazart ◽  
Fred W. Turek ◽  
Gregory F. Ball
Keyword(s):  
Estrogen Receptor ◽  
Messenger Rna ◽  
Preoptic Area ◽  
Receptor Subtype ◽  
Song System ◽  
Singing Behavior ◽  
Estrogenic Effects ◽  
Song Control Nuclei ◽  
Magnocellular Nucleus ◽  
Song Control

Abstract In songbirds, singing behavior is controlled by a discrete network of interconnected brain nuclei known collectively as the song control system. Both the development of this system and the expression of singing behavior in adulthood are strongly influenced by sex steroid hormones. Although both androgenic and estrogenic steroids have effects, androgen receptors (AR) are more abundantly and widely expressed in song nuclei than are estrogen receptors (ERα). The recent cloning of a second form of the estrogen receptor in mammals, ERβ, raises the possibility that a second receptor subtype is present in songbirds and that estrogenic effects in the song system may be mediated via ERβ. We therefore cloned the ERβ complementary DNA (cDNA) from a European starling preoptic area-hypothalamic cDNA library and used in situ hybridization histochemistry to examine its expression in forebrain song nuclei, relative to the expression of AR and ERα messenger RNA (mRNA), in the adjacent brain sections. The starling ERβ cDNA has an open reading frame of 1662-bp, predicted to encode a protein of 554 amino acids. This protein shares greater than 70% sequence identity with ERβ in other species. We report that starling ERβ is expressed in a variety of tissues, including brain, pituitary, skeletal muscle, liver, adrenal, kidney, intestine, and ovary. Similar to reports in other songbird species, we detected AR mRNA-containing cells in several song control nuclei, including the high vocal center (HVc), the medial and lateral portions of the magnocellular nucleus of the anterior neostriatum, and the robust nucleus of the archistriatum. We detected ERα expression in the medial portion of HVc (also called paraHVc) and along the medial border of the caudal neostriatum. ERβ was not expressed in HVc, in the medial and lateral portions of the magnocellular nucleus of the anterior neostriatum, in the robust nucleus of the archistriatum, or in area X. In contrast, ERβ mRNA-containing cells were detected in the caudomedial neostriatum and medial preoptic area in a pattern reminiscent of P450 aromatase expression in the same brain regions in other songbirds. These data suggest that estrogenic effects on the song system are not mediated via ERβ-producing cells within song nuclei. Nonetheless, the overlapping expression of ERβ- and aromatase-producing cells in the caudomedial neostriatum suggests that locally synthesized estrogens may act via ERβ, in addition to ERα, to mediate seasonal or developmental effects on nearby song nuclei (e.g. HVc).

Seasonal Growth of Song Control Nuclei Precedes Seasonal Reproductive Development in Wild Adult Song Sparrows

2001 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony D. Tramontin ◽  
Nicole Perfito ◽  
John C. Wingfield ◽  
Eliot A. Brenowitz
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Development ◽  
Seasonal Growth ◽  
Song Sparrows ◽  
Song Control Nuclei ◽  
Song Control
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