ArticleNeuroscience2009
Pair bonding in the female zebra finch: a potential role for the nucleus taeniae.
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- The Amygdala Regulates Social Motivation for Selective Vocal Imitation in Zebra Finches.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- The motivation to flock correlates with vocal-social behaviors and dopamine-related gene expression in male European starlings.Hormones and behavior · 2023Article
- Reciprocal processes of sensory perception and social bonding: an integrated social-sensory framework of social behavior.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2022Review
- Evolution of affiliation: patterns of convergence from genomes to behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Neural activity associated with rhythmicity of song in juvenile male and female zebra finches.Behavioural processes · 2019Article
- ZENK induction in the zebra finch brain by song: Relationship to hemisphere, rhythm, oestradiol and sex.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2017Article
- Developmental effects of vasotocin and nonapeptide receptors on early social attachment and affiliative behavior in the zebra finch.Hormones and behavior · 2016Article
- Early Life Manipulations of the Nonapeptide System Alter Pair Maintenance Behaviors and Neural Activity in Adult Male Zebra Finches.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
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- Arrhythmic song exposure increases ZENK expression in auditory cortical areas and nucleus taeniae of the adult zebra Finch.PloS one · 2014Article
- Singing-related activity in anterior forebrain of male zebra finches reflects courtship motivation for target females.PloS one · 2013Article
- Food for song: expression of c-Fos and ZENK in the zebra finch song nuclei during food aversion learning.PloS one · 2011Article
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Abstract
Male and female zebra finches are highly social and form pair bonds typically associated with reproduction. To determine how these bonds affect a female's behavioral response to future interactions, females were paired with a male for 2 weeks, separated for 48 h, and then exposed to the same or a novel male. Control females were left unpaired and introduced to a novel male. Behaviors, as well as neural ZENK expression, were quantified. Females displayed higher levels of behaviors associated with pair bonds (clumping and preening) toward their mates than novel males, and display of these behaviors was correlated with expression of the immediate early gene ZENK in the nucleus taeniae of one group of females, those interacting with their mates. Behaviors of the stimulus males were largely unaffected, but those interacting with an unpaired female attempted to mount more than those interacting with their mates. The results indicate that the nucleus taeniae may play some role in the maintenance of pair bonds in this species. Additionally, females may provide some signal to influence elements of the behavior of males.
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