Robinson, Kelly J. and Bosch, Oliver J. and Levkowitz, Gil and Busch, Karl Emanuel and Jarman, Andrew P. and Ludwig, Mike (2019) Social creatures: Model animal systems for studying the neuroendocrine mechanisms of social behaviour. JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, 31 (12): e12807. ISSN 0953-8194, 1365-2826
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The interaction of animals with conspecifics, termed social behaviour, has a major impact on the survival of many vertebrate species. Neuropeptide hormones modulate the underlying physiology that governs social interactions, and many findings concerning the neuroendocrine mechanisms of social behaviours have been extrapolated from animal models to humans. Neurones expressing neuropeptides show similar distribution patterns within the hypothalamic nucleus, even when evolutionarily distant species are compared. During evolution, hypothalamic neuropeptides and releasing hormones have retained not only their structures, but also their biological functions, including their effects on behaviour. Here, we review the current understanding of the mechanisms of social behaviours in several classes of animals, such as worms, insects and fish, as well as laboratory, wild and domesticated mammals.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | REPRODUCTIVE-BEHAVIOR; NONAPEPTIDE RECEPTORS; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; NATURAL VARIATION; NEURAL CIRCUIT; ZEBRA FINCHES; VASOPRESSIN; SEX; NEUROPEPTIDES; PEPTIDE; model animals; neuropeptides; oxytocin; social behaviours |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Tierphysiologie/Neurobiologie (Prof. Dr. Inga Neumann) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2020 09:01 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Mar 2020 09:02 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/25797 |
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