Effects of maternal care and selection for low mortality on tyrosine hydroxylase concentrations and cell soma size in hippocampus and nidopallium caudolaterale in adult laying hen1

In many eusocial species, queens use pheromones to influence offspring to express worker phenotypes. While evidence suggests that queen pheromones are honest signals of the queen's reproductive health, here I show that queen's honest signaling can result from ancestral maternal manipulation. I develop a mathematical model to study the coevolution of maternal manipulation, offspring resistance to manipulation, and maternal resource allocation. I assume that (1) maternal manipulation causes offspring to be workers against offspring's interests; (2) offspring can resist at no direct cost, as is thought to be the case with pheromonal manipulation; and (3) the mother chooses how much resource to allocate to fertility and maternal care. In the coevolution of these traits, I find that maternal care decreases, thereby increasing the benefit that offspring obtain from help, which in the long run eliminates selection for resistance. Consequently, ancestral maternal manipulation yields stable eusociality despite costless resistance. Additionally, ancestral manipulation in the long run becomes honest signaling that induces offspring to help. These results indicate that both eusociality and its commonly associated queen honest signaling can be likely to originate from ancestral manipulation.

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Catecholamines in Turkeys with High or Low Blood Pressure: Effects of Tyrosine Hydroxylase Inhibitor and Ganglionic Blocker

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology ◽

10.1139/y72-101 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 50 (7) ◽

pp. 697-702 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

M. E. El-Halawani ◽

P. E. Waibel ◽

R. Appel ◽

A. L. Good ◽

G. E. Duke

Keyword(s):

Blood Pressure ◽

Tyrosine Hydroxylase ◽

Left Ventricle ◽

Genetic Selection ◽

Pressure Effects ◽

Norepinephrine Release ◽

Low Blood Pressure ◽

Blood Pressure Effects ◽

Selection For

Following six generations of genetic selection for hyper- or hypotensive turkeys, tissues were assayed for catecholamines. The concentrations of norepinephrine and epinephrine were essentially the same in both groups except for the posterior aorta and the left ventricle. The latter tissues showed higher concentration of norepinephrine in the hypertensive birds.The administration of α-methyl-L-tyrosine or mecamylamine reduced norepinephrine to a greater extent in hyper- than in hypotensive turkeys. The results suggest that hypertension may be caused by increased rate of norepinephrine release.

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Catecholamine-, Indoleamine-, and GABA-containing cells in the chameleon retina

Visual Neuroscience ◽

10.1017/s0952523800009044 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 785-792 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Mohamed Bennis ◽

Claudine Versaux-Botteri

Keyword(s):

Tyrosine Hydroxylase ◽

Ganglion Cells ◽

Amacrine Cells ◽

Cell Types ◽

Aminobutyric Acid ◽

Retinal Cell ◽

Gamma Aminobutyric Acid ◽

First Report ◽

Soma Size ◽

Displaced Amacrine Cells

AbstractNeurons containing catecholamine, indoleamine, and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) were identified by immunohistochemistry in the chameleon retina. Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and serotonin (5HT) were observed mostly in two subtypes of orthotopic amacrine cells differing in their soma size and process distribution within the IPL. Some labelled cells were displaced either to the IPL (5HT) or to the GCL (TH and 5HT). A multiplicity of retinal cell types contained GABA including cones, horizontal, amacrine, and ganglion cells. Our results confirmed those obtained in the retinas of other lizards except for the presence of interstitial and displaced amacrine cells containing TH or 5HT of which this is the first report.

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Maternal care and selection for low mortality affect post-stress corticosterone and peripheral serotonin in laying hens

Physiology & Behavior ◽

10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.08.006 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 98 (5) ◽

pp. 519-523 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

T. Bas Rodenburg ◽

J. Elizabeth Bolhuis ◽

Rudie E. Koopmanschap ◽

Esther D. Ellen ◽

Eddy Decuypere

Keyword(s):

Maternal Care ◽

Laying Hens ◽

Selection For ◽

Post Stress

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The Nucleus Accumbens and Ventral Pallidum Exhibit Greater Dopaminergic Innervation in Humans Compared to Other Primates

10.21203/rs.3.rs-344689/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Kristen Hirter ◽

Elaine N. Miller ◽

Cheryl D. Stimpson ◽

Kimberley A. Phillips ◽

William D. Hopkins ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Nucleus Accumbens ◽

Tyrosine Hydroxylase ◽

Ventral Striatum ◽

Dorsal Striatum ◽

Great Apes ◽

Striatal Dopamine ◽

Ventral Pallidum ◽

Social Conformity ◽

Selection For ◽

Behavior Profile

Abstract Recent evidence suggests that increased dopaminergic signaling within the dorsal striatum played a central role in the evolution of the human brain. This increase has been linked to human pro-sociality and language in what has been described as a dopamine-dominated striatum personality style. Increased striatal dopamine is associated with an increase in ventral striatal activity and promotes externally-driven behaviors, including cooperation and social conformity. In contrast, decreased striatal dopamine is associated with increased dorsal striatal activity andfavors internally driven and goal-oriented behaviors. Previous comparative studies have focused on the dorsal striatum, measuring dopaminergic innervation in the dorsal and medial caudate nucleus and putamen. Here, we add to this knowledge by examining regions of the ventral striatum. We quantified the density of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive axons, as a measure of dopaminergic innervation, in the nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum of humans, great apes, platyrrhine and cercopithecid monkeys. Our data show that humans have a significantly greater dopaminergic innervation in both structures, supporting the hypothesis that selection for a prosocial neurochemistry in the human basal ganglia may have contributed to the evolution of our uniquely social behavior profile.

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Framework for Selecting Vocabulary for Preliterate Children Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ◽

10.1044/2019_ajslp-18-0041 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 1000-1009

Author(s):

Allison Bean ◽

Lindsey Paden Cargill ◽

Samantha Lyle

Keyword(s):

Language Impairment ◽

Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽

Developmentally Appropriate ◽

School Age Children ◽

Alternative Communication ◽

School Based ◽

Selection For ◽

Nonverbal Children ◽

Grammatical Structures ◽

Insufficient Knowledge

Purpose Nearly 50% of school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) provide services to school-age children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). However, many SLPs report having insufficient knowledge in the area of AAC implementation. The objective of this tutorial is to provide clinicians with a framework for supporting 1 area of AAC implementation: vocabulary selection for preliterate children who use AAC. Method This tutorial focuses on 4 variables that clinicians should consider when selecting vocabulary: (a) contexts/environments where the vocabulary can be used, (b) time span during which the vocabulary will be relevant, (c) whether the vocabulary can elicit and maintain interactions with other people, and (d) whether the vocabulary will facilitate developmentally appropriate grammatical structures. This tutorial focuses on the role that these variables play in language development in verbal children with typical development, verbal children with language impairment, and nonverbal children who use AAC. Results Use of the 4 variables highlighted above may help practicing SLPs select vocabulary that will best facilitate language acquisition in preliterate children who use AAC.

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Teaching Partners to Support Communication for Adults with Acquired Communication Impairment

Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication ◽

10.1044/aac22.1.4 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 4-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Laura J. Ball ◽

Joanne Lasker

Keyword(s):

Practice Patterns ◽

Communicative Competence ◽

Communication Disorders ◽

Communication Impairment ◽

Communication Partner ◽

Communication Partners ◽

Selection For ◽

Communication Needs ◽

End Of Life Communication ◽

Lateral Sclerosis

Abstract For adults with acquired communication impairment, particularly those who have communication disorders associated with stroke or neurodegenerative disease, communication partners play an important role in establishing and maintaining communicative competence. In this paper, we assemble some evidence on this topic and integrate it with current preferred practice patterns (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2004). Our goals are to help speech-language pathologists (SLPs) identify and describe partner-based communication strategies for adults with acquired impairment, implement evidence-based approaches for teaching strategies to communication partners, and employ a Personnel Framework (Binger et al., 2012) to clarify partners? roles in acquiring and supporting communication tools for individuals with acquired impairments. We offer specific guidance about AAC techniques and message selection for communication partners involved with chronic, degenerative, and end of life communication. We discuss research and provide examples of communication partner supports for person(s) with aphasia and person(s) with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis who have complex communication needs.

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