Song control system; Antiandrogen; Testosterone; Aromatase inhibition; Songbirds; Singing motivation; HVC
Abstract :
[en] In seasonally breeding songbirds such as canaries, singing behavior is predominantly under the control of tes- tosterone and its metabolites. Short daylengths in the fall that break photorefractoriness are followed by in- creasing daylengths in spring that activate singing via both photoperiodic and hormonal mechanisms. However, we observed in a group of castrated male Fife fancy canaries maintained for a long duration under a short day photoperiod a large proportion of subjects that sang at high rates. This singing rate was not correlated with variation in the low circulating concentrations of testosterone. Treatment of these actively singing castrated male canaries with a combination of an aromatase inhibitor (ATD) and an androgen receptor blocker (flutamide) only marginally decreased this singing activity as compared to control untreated birds and did not affect various measures of song quality. The volumes of HVC and of the medial preoptic nucleus (POM) were also unaffected by these treatments but were relatively large and similar to volumes in testosterone-treated males. In contrast, peripheral androgen-sensitive structures such as the cloacal protuberance and syrinx mass were small, similar to what is observed in castrates. Together these data suggest that after a long-term steroid deprivation singing behavior can be activated by very low concentrations of testosterone. Singing normally depends on the acti- vation by testosterone and its metabolites of multiple downstream neurochemical systems such as catechola- mines, nonapeptides or opioids. These transmitter systems might become hypersensitive to steroid action after long term castration as they probably are at the end of winter during the annual cycle in seasonally breeding temperate zone species.
Research Center/Unit :
Giga-Neurosciences - ULiège
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
Shevchouk, Olesya ; Université de Liège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Biologie de la différenciation sexuelle du cerveau
Ghorbanpoor, Samar
Smith, Ed
Liere, Philippe
Schumacher, Michael
Ball, Gregory
Cornil, Charlotte ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Biologie de la différenciation sexuelle du cerveau
Balthazart, Jacques ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques
Language :
English
Title :
Behavioral evidence for sex steroids hypersensitivity in castrated male canaries
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