Midbrain dopamine neurons reflect affiliation phenotypes in finches and are tightly coupled to courtship

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8737-8742

  Goodson, James L ^a   Kabelik, David ^a   Kelly, Aubrey M ^a   Rinaldi, Jacob ^a   Klatt, James D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Periaqueductal gray; Song; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CENTRAL GRAY MATTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; FINCH; GONAD; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COURTSHIP; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; FINCHES; GONADS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; ESTRILDIDAE; FRINGILLIDAE; MAMMALIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 66649122808     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811821106     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Insel TR, Fernald RD (2004) How the brain processes social information: Searching for the social brain. Annu Rev Neurosci 27:697-722. (Pubitemid 39050418)
2. Goodson JL (2005) The vertebrate social behavior network: Evolutionary themes and variations. Horm Behav 48:11-22. (Pubitemid 40779286)
3. Young LJ, Wang Z (2004) The neurobiology of pair bonding. Nat Neurosci 7:1048-1054. (Pubitemid 41184443)
4. Goodson JL (2008) Nonapeptides and the evolutionary patterning of sociality. Prog Brain Res 170:3-15.
5. Aragona BJ, et al. (2006) Nucleus accumbens dopamine differentially mediates the formation and maintenance of monogamous pair bonds. Nat Neurosci 9:133-139. (Pubitemid 43011919)
6. Hara E, Kubikova L, Hessler NA, Jarvis ED (2007) Role of the midbrain dopaminergic system in modulation of vocal brain activation by social context. Eur J Neurosci 25:3406-3416. (Pubitemid 46872781)
7. Riters LV, Olesen KM, Auger CJ (2007) Evidence that female endocrine state influences catecholamine responses to male courtship song in European starlings. Gen Comp Endocrinol 154:137-149. (Pubitemid 47362115)
8. Rauceo S, et al. (2008) Dopaminergic modulation of reproductive behavior and activity in male zebra finches. Behav Brain Res 187:133-139. (Pubitemid 350216198)
9. Balthazart J, Castagna C, Ball GF (1997) Differential effects of D1 and D2 dopamine-receptor agonists and antagonists on appetitive and consummatory aspects of male sexual behavior in Japanese quail. Physiol Behav 62:571-580. (Pubitemid 27376294)
10. Cornil CA, Dejace C, Ball GF, Balthazart J (2005) Dopamine modulates male sexual behavior in Japanese quail in part via actions on noradrenergic receptors. Behav Brain Res 163:42-57. (Pubitemid 40991720)
11. Dominguez JM, Hull EM (2005) Dopamine, the medial preoptic area, and male sexual behavior. Physiol Behav 86:356-368. (Pubitemid 41476408)
12. Berridge KC (2004) Motivation concepts in behavioral neuroscience. Physiol Behav 81:179-209. (Pubitemid 38670087)
13. Schultz W (2007) Behavioral dopamine signals. Trends Neurosci 30:203-210. (Pubitemid 46654238)
14. Balthazart J, Absil P (1997) Identification of catecholaminergic inputs to and outputs from aromatase-containing brain areas of the Japanese quail by tract tracing combined with tyrosine hydroxylase immunocytochemistry. J Comp Neurol 382:401-428. (Pubitemid 27250432)
15. Bjorklund A, Dunnett SB (2007) Dopamine neuron systems in the brain: An update. Trends Neurosci 30:194-202. (Pubitemid 46654237)
16. Appeltants D, Absil P, Balthazart J, Ball GF (2000) Identification of the origin of catecholaminergic inputs to HVc in canaries by retrograde tract tracing combined with tyrosine hydroxylase immunocytochemistry. J Chem Neuroanat 18:117-133. (Pubitemid 30138047)
17. Appeltants D, Ball GF, Balthazart J (2002) The origin of catecholaminergic inputs to the song control nucleus RA in canaries. Neuroreport 13:649-653. (Pubitemid 34293485)
18. Charlier TD, Ball GF, Balthazart J (2005) Sexual behavior activates the expression of the immediate early genes c-fos and Zenk (egr-1) in catecholaminergic neurons of male Japanese quail. Neuroscience 131:13-30. (Pubitemid 40170485)
19. Bharati IS, Goodson JL (2006) Fos responses of dopamine neurons to sociosexual stimuli in male zebra finches. Neuroscience 143:661-670. (Pubitemid 44751367)
20. Balfour ME, Yu L, Coolen LM (2004) Sexual behavior and sex-associated environmental cues activate the mesolimbic system in male rats. Neuropsychopharmacology 29:718-730. (Pubitemid 38402479)
21. Lammel S, et al. (2008) Unique properties of mesoprefrontal neurons within a dual mesocorticolimbic dopamine system. Neuron 57:760-773.
22. Gale SD, Perkel DJ (2006) Physiological properties of zebra finch ventral tegmental area and substantia nigra pars compacta neurons. J Neurophysiol 96:2295-2306. (Pubitemid 44785884)
23. Reiner A, Karle EJ, Anderson KD, Medina L (1994) Phylogeny and Development of Catecholamine Systems in the CNS of Vertebrates, eds Smeets WJ, Reiner A (Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge), pp 135-181.
24. Reiner A, et al. (2004) Revised nomenclature for avian telencephalon and some related brainstem nuclei. J Comp Neurol 473:377-414. (Pubitemid 38580457)
25. Berridge KC, Robinson TE (2003) Parsing reward. Trends Neurosci 26:507-513. (Pubitemid 37025790)
26. Faure A, Reynolds SM, Richard JM, Berridge KC (2008) Mesolimbic dopamine in desire and dread: Enabling motivation to be generated by localized glutamate disruptions in nucleus accumbens. J Neurosci 28:7184-7192.
27. Stuber GD, et al. (2008) Reward-predictive cues enhance excitatory synaptic strength onto midbrain dopamine neurons. Science 321:1690-1692.
28. Schroeder MB, Riters LV (2006) Pharmacological manipulations of dopamine and opioids have differential effects on sexually motivated song in male European starlings. Physiol Behav 88:575-584. (Pubitemid 44093628)
29. Herdegen T, Leah JD (1998) Inducible and constitutive transcription factors in the mammalian nervous system: Control of gene expression by Jun, Fos and Krox, and CREB/ATF proteins. Brain Res Rev 28:370-490. (Pubitemid 29012678)
30. Goodson JL, Rinaldi J, Kelly AM (2009) Vasotocin neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis preferentially process social information and exhibit properties that dichotomize courting and non-courting phenotypes. Horm Behav 55:197-202.
31. Goodson JL, Wang Y (2006) Valence-sensitive neurons exhibit divergent functional profiles in gregarious and asocial species. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:17013-17017. (Pubitemid 44737369)
32. Lynch KS, Diekamp B, Ball GF (2008) Catecholaminergic cell groups and vocal communication in male songbirds. Physiol Behav 93:870-876.
33. Riters LV, Alger SJ (2004) Neuroanatomical evidence for indirect connections between the medial preoptic nucleus and the song control system: Possible neural substrates for sexually motivated song. Cell Tissue Res 316:35-44. (Pubitemid 38669876)
34. Goodson JL, Bass AH (2002) Vocal-acoustic circuitry and descending vocal pathways in teleost fish: Convergence with terrestrial vertebrates reveals conserved traits. J Comp Neurol 448:298-322. (Pubitemid 34553222)
35. Jürgens U (2002) Neural pathways underlying vocal control. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 26:235-258. (Pubitemid 34145287)
36. Sasaki A, Sotnikova TD, Gainetdinov RR, Jarvis ED (2006) Social context-dependent singing-regulated dopamine. J Neurosci 26:9010-9014. (Pubitemid 44319391)
37. Heimovics SA, Riters LV (2008) Evidence that dopamine within motivation and song control brain regions regulates birdsong context-dependently. Physiol Behav 95:258-266.
38. Yanagihara S, Hessler NA (2006) Modulation of singing-related activity in the songbird ventral tegmental area by social context. Eur J Neurosci 24:3619-3627. (Pubitemid 44952627)
39. Shabat-Simon M, Levy D, Amir A, Rehavi M, Zangen A (2008) Dissociation between rewarding and psychomotor effects of opiates: Differential roles for glutamate receptors within anterior and posterior portions of the ventral tegmental area. J Neurosci 28:8406-8416.
40. Maney DL, Bernard DJ, Ball GF (2001) Gonadal steroid receptorm RNA in catecholaminergic nuclei of the canary brainstem. Neurosci Lett 311:189-192. (Pubitemid 32905469)
41. Appeltants D, Ball GF, Balthazart J (2003) Song activation by testosterone is associated with an increased catecholaminergic innervation of the song control system in female canaries. Neuroscience 121:801-814. (Pubitemid 38367517)
42. LeBlanc MM, Goode CT, MacDougall-Shackleton EA, Maney DL (2007) Estradiol modulates brainstem catecholaminergic cell groups and projections to the auditory forebrain in a female songbird. Brain Res 1171:93-103. (Pubitemid 47404528)