ArticleThe Journal of comparative neurology2013
Localization and divergent profiles of estrogen receptors and aromatase in the vocal and auditory networks of a fish with alternative mating tactics.
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- Dopamine D1Aa and D2a Receptor Expression in the Auditory System of a Vocal Fish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Differential expression of steroid-related genes across electrosensory brain regions in two sexually dimorphic species of electric knifefish.General and comparative endocrinology · 2024Review
- The continued importance of comparative auditory research to modern scientific discovery.Hearing research · 2023Review
- A neural circuit perspective on brain aromatase.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2022Review
- Testosterone Treatment Mimics Seasonal Downregulation of Dopamine Innervation in the Auditory System of Female Midshipman Fish.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021Article
- Vocal and Electric Fish: Revisiting a Comparison of Two Teleost Models in the Neuroethology of Social Behavior.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2021Review
- Galanin immunoreactivity is sexually polymorphic in neuroendocrine and vocal-acoustic systems in a teleost fish.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2020Article
- Direct and Indirect Effects of Sex Steroids on Gonadotrope Cell Plasticity in the Teleost Fish Pituitary.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020Review
- Acute effects of sex steroids on visual processing in male goldfish.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Article
- How does oestradiol influence the AVT/IT system in female round gobies during different reproductive phases?Biology open · 2017Article
- Brain Transcriptional Profiles of Male Alternative Reproductive Tactics and Females in Bluegill Sunfish.PloS one · 2016Article
- Brain estrogen production and the encoding of recent experience.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2015Article
- Gene expression underlying enhanced, steroid-dependent auditory sensitivity of hair cell epithelium in a vocal fish.BMC genomics · 2015Article
- Neural transcriptome reveals molecular mechanisms for temporal control of vocalization across multiple timescales.BMC genomics · 2015Article
- Neuroendocrine control of seasonal plasticity in the auditory and vocal systems of fish.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2015Review
- Catecholaminergic Fiber Innervation of the Vocal Motor System Is Intrasexually Dimorphic in a Teleost with Alternative Reproductive Tactics.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2015Article
- Direct Regulation of Aromatase B Expression by 17β-Estradiol and Dopamine D1 Receptor Agonist in Adult Radial Glial Cells.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2015Article
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- Catecholaminergic connectivity to the inner ear, central auditory, and vocal motor circuitry in the plainfin midshipman fish porichthys notatus.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Estrogens play a salient role in the development and maintenance of both male and female nervous systems and behaviors. The plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus), a teleost fish, has two male reproductive morphs that follow alternative mating tactics and diverge in multiple somatic, hormonal, and neural traits, including the central control of morph-specific vocal behaviors. After we identified duplicate estrogen receptors (ERβ1 and ERβ2) in midshipman, we developed antibodies to localize protein expression in the central vocal-acoustic networks and saccule, the auditory division of the inner ear. As in other teleost species, ERβ1 and ERβ2 were robustly expressed in the telencephalon and hypothalamus in vocal-acoustic and other brain regions shown previously to exhibit strong expression of ERα and aromatase (estrogen synthetase, CYP19) in midshipman. Like aromatase, ERβ1 label colocalized with glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in telencephalic radial glial cells. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction revealed similar patterns of transcript abundance across reproductive morphs for ERβ1, ERβ2, ERα, and aromatase in the forebrain and saccule. In contrast, transcript abundance for ERs and aromatase varied significantly between morphs in and around the sexually polymorphic vocal motor nucleus (VMN). Together, the results suggest that VMN is the major estrogen target within the estrogen-sensitive hindbrain vocal network that directly determines the duration, frequency, and amplitude of morph-specific vocalizations. Comparable regional differences in steroid receptor abundances likely regulate morph-specific behaviors in males and females of other species exhibiting alternative reproductive tactics.
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