Immediate early gene (ZENK) responses to song in juvenile female and male zebra finches: Effects of rearing environment

Wiley - Tập 66 Số 11 - Trang 1175-1182 - 2006
Michelle L. Tomaszycki1, Emily M. Sluzas1, Kristy A. Sundberg1, Sarah Winans Newman1, Timothy J. DeVoogd1
1Department of Psychology, Uris Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

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AbstractAccurate song perception is likely to be as important for female songbirds as it is for male songbirds. Male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) show differential ZENK expression to conspecific and heterospecific songs by day 30 posthatch in auditory perceptual brain regions such as the caudomedial nidopallium (NCM) and the caudomedial mesopallium (CMM). The current study examined ZENK expression in response to songs of different qualities at day 45 posthatch in both sexes. Normally reared juvenile zebra finches showed higher densities of immunopositive nuclei in both the dorsal and ventral areas of NCM and CMM (formerly cmHV), but not HA, a visual area, in response to normal song over untutored song or silence. Male and female patterns of ZENK expression did not differ. We next compared responses of birds reared without exposure to normal song (untutored) to those of normally reared birds. Untutored birds did not show higher responses to normal song than to untutored song in the three song perception areas. Furthermore, untutored birds of both sexes showed lower densities of immunopositive nuclei in all four areas than did normally reared birds. In addition, ZENK expression was greater in untutored females than in males in the dorsal portion of NCM and in CMM. Our findings suggest that at least some neural mechanisms of song perception are in place in socially reared female and male finches at an early age. Furthermore, early exposure to song tutors affects responses to song stimuli. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Neurobiol 66: 1175–1182, 2006

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Wiley

Tập 66 Số 11

1175-1182

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