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Reihe: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology

Adkins-Regan Hormones and Animal Social Behavior


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ISBN: 978-1-4008-5077-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology

ISBN: 978-1-4008-5077-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)



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List of Illustrations and Tables ix

Preface xiii

Chapter 1: Hormonal Mechanisms 1

Why Does Social Behavior Need
Hormonal Regulation? 3

Steroids 4

Steroid Synthesis and Metabolism 7

Steroid Measurement and Dynamics 9

Neuropeptides and Prolactin 11

Where and How Do Steroids Act to
Alter Behavior? 13

Steroid Manipulation 18

Mechanisms of Peptide Action 19

Multiple Messengers,Multiple Behaviors 20

Hormones,Plasticity,and Development 21

How the Necessary Control of Steroids by the Environment Is Achieved: The HPG and HPA Axes 23

Diversity in Mechanisms 29

How "Costly" Are These Hormonal Mechanisms? 30

Chapter 2: Mating, Fighting, Parenting, and Signaling 34

Courtship and Mating 34

Individual and Species Variation in Hormone Dependence of Mating Behavior 42

Female Mating Behavior and Sex Differences in Hormone Dependence 44

Aggressive Behavior 49

Parental Behavior 52

How Hormones Alter Behavior: Circuits, Networks, and Processes 58

Daily and Seasonal Rhythms of Social Behavior 65

Hormones and Signaling 71

Hormonal Responses to Signals and Cues 82

Chapter 3: Social Relationships and Social Organization 92

Sociality 93

Dominance 94

Territoriality 98

Mating Systems 102

Mate Choice 108

Pairbonding 112

Parent -Offspring and Sibling Relationships 117

Cooperative Breeding and Alloparenting 122

Conclusions 130

Chapter 4: Development of Sexes and Types 131

Sex Determination and Morphological Sexual Differentiation 131

Sex Differences in Behavior and Brains 135

Sex Differences Due to Activational Hormone Effects 138

The Organization of Behavioral Sex Differences in Mammals 139

The Direct Genetic Differentiation Hypothesis 146

The Development of Sex Differences in Birds: Progress and Puzzles 148

Sexual Differentiation of Behavior in Other Vertebrates 155

Do Invertebrates Have Hormonally Organized Sex Differences in Behavior? 158

Sex-Changing Fish 160

Within-Sex Types (Within-Sex Dimorphism) 165

Comparative Overview 172

Chapter 5: Evolutionary Change and Species Differences 179

Heritable Phenotypic Variation: Individual Differences and Their Basis 179

Reproductive Success and Differential Fitness 187

Responses to Selection 193

Correlated Traits, Hormones,Costs, and Evolutionary Change 200

Hormones,Sexes,and Sexual Selection 202

Putting Hormonal Mechanisms in the Foreground 205

Genetic Architecture and Hormonally Based Sexual Dimorphism 213

The Perspective from Evolutionary Developmental Biology 214

Species Comparisons in Hormones and Behavior 218

Conclusions 222

Chapter 6: Life Stages and Life Histories 224

Life Histories,Fitness,and Hormones 224

Life Stages Prior to Reproductive Maturity 226

Onset of Reproductive Maturity: Puberty 233

Aging and Senescence 239

Hormones,Social Behavior, and Life History Trade-Offs 247

Conclusions 255

Chapter 7: Phylogeny:Conservation and Innovation 256

Oxytocin Family Peptides and Their Receptors 256

GnRH and Its Receptors 260

Steroid Receptors 263

Steroids and Steroidogenic Enzymes 266

Behavioral Phylogeny, Brains, and the Conservation Paradox 269

Steroid-Modulated Vocalization 272

Mating Behavior 276

Parental Behavior 277

Sex Determination and Sexual Differentiation 279

Conclusions 283

Afterword 285

References 287

Index 365


Elizabeth Adkins-Regan is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University.



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