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Published: 7th August 2005
ISBN: 9780691092478
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Research into the lives of animals in their natural environments has revealed a rich tapestry of complex social relationships and previously unsuspected social and mating systems. The evolution of this behavior is increasingly well understood. At the same time, laboratory scientists have made significant discoveries about how steroid and peptide hormones act on the nervous system to shape behavior. An exciting and rapidly progressing hybrid zone has developed in which these two fields are integrated, providing a fuller understanding of social behavior and the adaptive functions of hormones.
This book is a guide to these fascinating connections between animal social behavior and steroid and peptide hormones--a synthesis designed to make it easier for graduate students and researchers to appreciate the excitement, engage in such integrative thinking, and understand the primary literature. Throughout, Elizabeth Adkins-Regan emphasizes concepts and principles, hypothesis testing, and critical thinking. She raises unanswered questions, providing an unparalleled source of ideas for future research. The chapter sequence is by levels of biological organization, beginning with the behavior and hormones of individuals, proceeding to social relationships and systems, and from there to development, behavioral evolution over relatively short time scales, life histories and their evolution, and finally evolution over longer time scales. The book features studies of a wide variety of wild and domestic vertebrates along with some of the most important invertebrate discoveries.
"Elizabeth Adkins-Regan takes the reader sledding from brain behavior and from hormones to gene expression, up and down through levels of analysis that often change within a single sentence."--Ellen D. Ketterson, Science "Hormones and Animal Social Behavior masterfully achieves Adkins-Regan's goal of integrating behavioral endocrinology with ecological and evolutionary studies... I predict that this outstanding book will soon become a classic in behavioral biology."--Randy J. Nelson, BioScience "Adkins-Regan's book is a timely and very welcome contribution that will be hoped to set the standards for the study of the neuroendocrinological basis of behavior in the wild."--Aldo Poiani, Austral Ecology
| List of Illustrations and Tables | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Hormonal Mechanisms | p. 1 |
| Why Does Social Behavior Need Hormonal Regulation? | p. 3 |
| Steroids | p. 4 |
| Steroid Synthesis and Metabolism | p. 7 |
| Steroid Measurement and Dynamics | p. 9 |
| Neuropeptides and Prolactin | p. 11 |
| Where and How Do Steroids Act to Alter Behavior? | p. 13 |
| Steroid Manipulation | p. 18 |
| Mechanisms of Peptide Action | p. 19 |
| Multiple Messengers,Multiple Behaviors | p. 20 |
| Hormones,Plasticity,and Development | p. 21 |
| How the Necessary Control of Steroids by the Environment Is Achieved: The HPG and HPA Axes | p. 23 |
| Diversity in Mechanisms | p. 29 |
| How "Costly" Are These Hormonal Mechanisms? | p. 30 |
| Mating, Fighting, Parenting, and Signaling | p. 34 |
| Courtship and Mating | p. 34 |
| Individual and Species Variation in Hormone Dependence of Mating Behavior | p. 42 |
| Female Mating Behavior and Sex Differences in Hormone Dependence | p. 44 |
| Aggressive Behavior | p. 49 |
| Parental Behavior | p. 52 |
| How Hormones Alter Behavior: Circuits, Networks, and Processes | p. 58 |
| Daily and Seasonal Rhythms of Social Behavior | p. 65 |
| Hormones and Signaling | p. 71 |
| Hormonal Responses to Signals and Cues | p. 82 |
| Social Relationships and Social Organization | p. 92 |
| Sociality | p. 93 |
| Dominance | p. 94 |
| Territoriality | p. 98 |
| Mating Systems | p. 102 |
| Mate Choice | p. 108 |
| Pairbonding | p. 112 |
| Parent -Offspring and Sibling Relationships | p. 117 |
| Cooperative Breeding and Alloparenting | p. 122 |
| Conclusions | p. 130 |
| Development of Sexes and Types | p. 131 |
| Sex Determination and Morphological Sexual Differentiation | p. 131 |
| Sex Differences in Behavior and Brains | p. 135 |
| Sex Differences Due to Activational Hormone Effects | p. 138 |
| The Organization of Behavioral Sex Differences in Mammals | p. 139 |
| The Direct Genetic Differentiation Hypothesis | p. 146 |
| The Development of Sex Differences in Birds: Progress and Puzzles | p. 148 |
| Sexual Differentiation of Behavior in Other Vertebrates | p. 155 |
| Do Invertebrates Have Hormonally Organized Sex Differences in Behavior? | p. 158 |
| Sex-Changing Fish | p. 160 |
| Within-Sex Types (Within-Sex Dimorphism) | p. 165 |
| Comparative Overview | p. 172 |
| Evolutionary Change and Species Differences | p. 179 |
| Heritable Phenotypic Variation: Individual Differences and Their Basis | p. 179 |
| Reproductive Success and Differential Fitness | p. 187 |
| Responses to Selection | p. 193 |
| Correlated Traits, Hormones,Costs, and Evolutionary Change | p. 200 |
| Hormones,Sexes,and Sexual Selection | p. 202 |
| Putting Hormonal Mechanisms in the Foreground | p. 205 |
| Genetic Architecture and Hormonally Based Sexual Dimorphism | p. 213 |
| The Perspective from Evolutionary Developmental Biology | p. 214 |
| Species Comparisons in Hormones and Behavior | p. 218 |
| Conclusions | p. 222 |
| Life Stages and Life Histories | p. 224 |
| Life Histories,Fitness,and Hormones | p. 224 |
| Life Stages Prior to Reproductive Maturity | p. 226 |
| Onset of Reproductive Maturity: Puberty | p. 233 |
| Aging and Senescence | p. 239 |
| Hormones,Social Behavior, and Life History Trade-Offs | p. 24 |
| Conclusions | p. 255 |
| Phylogeny:Conservation and Innovation | p. 256 |
| Oxytocin Family Peptides and Their Receptors | p. 256 |
| GnRH and Its Receptors | p. 260 |
| Steroid Receptors | p. 263 |
| Steroids and Steroidogenic Enzymes | p. 266 |
| Behavioral Phylogeny, Brains, and the Conservation Paradox | p. 269 |
| Steroid-Modulated Vocalization | p. 272 |
| Mating Behavior | p. 276 |
| Parental Behavior | p. 277 |
| Sex Determination and Sexual Differentiation | p. 279 |
| Conclusions | p. 283 |
| Afterword | p. 285 |
| References | p. 287 |
| Index | p. 365 |
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ISBN: 9780691092478
ISBN-10: 0691092478
Series: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 416
Published: 7th August 2005
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 23.57 x 15.55
x 2.87
Weight (kg): 0.6
