Examining the disconnect between prolactin and parental care in avian brood parasites.
avian brood parasite
hypothalamus
parental care
preoptic area
prolactin
Journal
Genes, brain, and behavior
ISSN: 1601-183X
Titre abrégé: Genes Brain Behav
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101129617
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2020
09 2020
Historique:
received:
30
11
2019
revised:
20
02
2020
accepted:
17
03
2020
pubmed:
22
3
2020
medline:
17
7
2021
entrez:
22
3
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Prolactin is often referred to as the "parental hormone" but there are examples in which prolactin and parental behavior are disconnected. One intriguing example is in avian obligate brood parasites; species exhibiting high circulating prolactin but no parental care. To understand this disconnect, we examined transcriptional and behavioral responses to prolactin in brown-headed (Molothrus ater) and bronzed (M aeneus) brood parasitic cowbirds. We first examine prolactin-dependent regulation of transcriptome wide gene expression in the preoptic area (POA), a brain region associated with parental care across vertebrates. We next examined prolactin-dependent abundance of seven parental care-related candidate genes in hypothalamic regions that are prolactin-responsive in other avian species. We found no evidence of prolactin sensitivity in cowbirds in either case. To understand this prolactin insensitivity, we compared prolactin receptor transcript abundance between parasitic and nonparasitic species and between prolactin treated and untreated cowbirds. We observed significantly lower prolactin receptor transcript abundance in brown-headed but not bronzed cowbird POA compared with a nonparasite and no prolactin-dependent changes in either parasitic species. Finally, estrogen-primed female brown-headed cowbirds with or without prolactin treatment exhibited significantly greater avoidance of nestling begging stimuli compared with untreated birds. Taken together, our results suggest that modified prolactin receptor distributions in the POA and surrounding hypothalamic regions disconnect prolactin from parental care in brood parasitic cowbirds.
Substances chimiques
Avian Proteins
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Receptors, Prolactin
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Prolactin
9002-62-4
Banques de données
Dryad
['10.5061/dryad.s36hm11']
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e12653Informations de copyright
© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society.
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