ReviewJournal of ornithology
From neurons to nests: nest-building behaviour as a model in behavioural and comparative neuroscience.
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- Exploring Anatomical Links Between the Crow's Nidopallium Caudolaterale and Its Song System.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Article
- Form, function, foam: evolutionary ecology of anuran nests and nesting behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- The genetic architecture of behavioral canalization.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2023Review
- Adding the neuro to cognition: from food storing to nest building.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Parental behavior and newborn attachment in birds: life history traits and endocrine responses.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Bidirectional Behavioral Selection in Mice: A Novel Pre-clinical Approach to Examining Compulsivity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Uncovering the Sex-Specific Endocrine Responses to Reproduction and Parental Care.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Article
- Complex patterns of dopamine-related gene expression in the ventral tegmental area of male zebra finches relate to dyadic interactions with long-term female partners.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2020Article
- Evolution of Epistatic Networks and the Genetic Basis of Innate Behaviors.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2020Review
- A modeling algorithm for exploring the architecture and construction of bird nests.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Enhanced Expression of Secreted α-Klotho in the Hippocampus Alters Nesting Behavior and Memory Formation in Mice.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2019Article
- Effects of acute alcohol withdrawal on nest building in mice selectively bred for alcohol withdrawal severity.Physiology & behavior · 2016Article
- Smart mating: the cognitive ability of females influences their preference for male cognitive ability.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Despite centuries of observing the nest building of most extant bird species, we know surprisingly little about how birds build nests and, specifically, how the avian brain controls nest building. Here, we argue that nest building in birds may be a useful model behaviour in which to study how the brain controls behaviour. Specifically, we argue that nest building as a behavioural model provides a unique opportunity to study not only the mechanisms through which the brain controls behaviour within individuals of a single species but also how evolution may have shaped the brain to produce interspecific variation in nest-building behaviour. In this review, we outline the questions in both behavioural and comparative neuroscience that nest building could be used to address, summarize recent findings regarding the neurobiology of nest building in lab-reared zebra finches and across species building different nest structures, and suggest some future directions for the neurobiology of nest building.
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