Early social deprivation shapes neuronal programming of the social decision-making network in a cooperatively breeding fish.

ABSTRACT: The early social environment an animal experiences may have pervasive effects on its behaviour. The social decision-making network (SDMN), consisting of interconnected brain nuclei from the forebrain and midbrain, is involved in the regulation of behaviours during social interactions. In species with advanced sociality such as cooperative breeders, offspring are exposed to a large number and a great diversity of social interactions every day of their early life. This diverse social environment may have life-long consequences on the development of several neurophysiological systems within the SDMN, although these effects are largely unknown. We studied these life-long effects in a cooperatively breeding fish, Neolamprologus pulcher, focusing on the expression of genes involved in the monoam

SUBMITTER: Antunes DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8457231 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature