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From neurons to nests : nest-building behaviour as a model in behavioural and comparative neuroscience

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Date
04/2015
Author
Hall, Zachary Jonas
Meddle, Simone L
Healy, Susan Denise
Keywords
Nest building
Neurobiology
Behavioural neuroscience
Motor sequencing
Comparative neuroscience
QH301 Biology
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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 nestbuilding 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 labreared zebra finches and across species building different nest structures, and suggest some future directions for the neurobiology of nest building.
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Hall , Z J , Meddle , S L & Healy , S D 2015 , ' From neurons to nests : nest-building behaviour as a model in behavioural and comparative neuroscience ' Journal of Ornithology . DOI: 10.1007/s10336-015-1214-5
Publication
Journal of Ornithology
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-015-1214-5
ISSN
2193-7192
Type
Journal article
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Copyright The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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This work was supported by funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/ I019502/1 to SDH and SLM) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (grant number PGSD3-409582-2011 to ZJH) and Roslin Institute Strategic Grant funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (SLM).
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  • Biology Research
  • Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution Research
  • Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences Research
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7186

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