ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2015
Integrating brain, behavior, and phylogeny to understand the evolution of sensory systems in birds.
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- Evolution of Avian Eye Size Is Associated with Habitat Openness, Food Type and Brain Size.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- The relative sizes of nuclei in the oculomotor complex vary by order and behaviour in birds.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Relationship between flightlessness and brain morphology among Rallidae.Journal of anatomy · 2022Article
- Visual Responses to Moving and Flashed Stimuli of Neurons in Domestic Pigeon (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Comparative Genomics Provides Insights into Adaptive Evolution in Tactile-Foraging Birds.Genes · 2022Article
- Quantitative Evaluation of Tactile Foraging Behavior in Pekin and Muscovy Ducks.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Endocranial morphology of the piciformes (Aves, Coraciimorphae): Functional and ecological implications.Journal of anatomy · 2021Article
- The skull of the Miocene Spheniscus urbinai (Aves, Sphenisciformes): osteology, brain morphology, and the cranial pneumatic systems.Journal of anatomy · 2021Article
- Endocast structures are reliable proxies for the sizes of corresponding regions of the brain in extant birds.Journal of anatomy · 2020Article
- The endocast of the Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) reveals insights into its sensory ecology and the evolution of nocturnality in birds.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Avian palaeoneurology: Reflections on the eve of its 200th anniversary.Journal of anatomy · 2020Review
- Multiphase progenetic development shaped the brain of flying archosaurs.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- A Cross-Species Analysis Reveals a General Role for Piezo2 in Mechanosensory Specialization of Trigeminal Ganglia from Tactile Specialist Birds.Cell reports · 2019Article
- Representation of time interval entrained by periodic stimuli in the visual thalamus of pigeons.eLife · 2017Article
- Sensory system plasticity in a visually specialized, nocturnal spider.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Evolutionary Specialization of Tactile Perception in Vertebrates.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2016Review
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Abstract
The comparative anatomy of sensory systems has played a major role in developing theories and principles central to evolutionary neuroscience. This includes the central tenet of many comparative studies, the principle of proper mass, which states that the size of a neural structure reflects its processing capacity. The size of structures within the sensory system is not, however, the only salient variable in sensory evolution. Further, the evolution of the brain and behavior are intimately tied to phylogenetic history, requiring studies to integrate neuroanatomy with behavior and phylogeny to gain a more holistic view of brain evolution. Birds have proven to be a useful group for these studies because of widespread interest in their phylogenetic relationships and a wealth of information on the functional organization of most of their sensory pathways. In this review, we examine the principle of proper mass in relation differences in the sensory capabilities among birds. We discuss how neuroanatomy, behavior, and phylogeny can be integrated to understand the evolution of sensory systems in birds providing evidence from visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems. We also consider the concept of a "trade-off," whereby one sensory system (or subpathway within a sensory system), may be expanded in size, at the expense of others, which are reduced in size.
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