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Yebga Hot R, Siwiaszczyk M, Love SA, Andersson F, Calandreau L, Poupon F, Beaujoin J, Herlin B, Boumezbeur F, Mulot B, Chaillou E, Uszynski I, Poupon C. A novel male Japanese quail structural connectivity atlas using ultra-high field diffusion MRI at 11.7 T. Brain Struct Funct 2022; 227:1577-1597. [PMID: 35355136 PMCID: PMC9098543 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-022-02457-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
The structural connectivity of animal brains can be revealed using post-mortem diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Despite the existence of several structural atlases of avian brains, few of them address the bird’s structural connectivity. In this study, a novel atlas of the structural connectivity is proposed for the male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), aiming at investigating two lines divergent on their emotionality trait: the short tonic immobility (STI) and the long tonic immobility (LTI) lines. The STI line presents a low emotionality trait, while the LTI line expresses a high emotionality trait. 21 male Japanese quail brains from both lines were scanned post-mortem for this study, using a preclinical Bruker 11.7 T MRI scanner. Diffusion-weighted MRI was performed using a 3D segmented echo planar imaging (EPI) pulsed gradient spin-echo (PGSE) sequence with a 200 \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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\begin{document}$$\upmu$$\end{document}μm isotropic resolution. This very first anatomical connectivity atlas of the male Japanese quail reveals 34 labeled fiber tracts and the existence of structural differences between the connectivity patterns characterizing the two lines. Thus, the link between the male Japanese quail’s connectivity and its underlying anatomical structures has reached a better understanding.
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- Raïssa Yebga Hot
- Unité BAOBAB, NeuroSpin, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Unité de Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements (PRC), INRAE, CNRS, IFCE, Université de Tours, 37380, Nouzilly, France
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- Unité de Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements (PRC), INRAE, CNRS, IFCE, Université de Tours, 37380, Nouzilly, France
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- Unité de Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements (PRC), INRAE, CNRS, IFCE, Université de Tours, 37380, Nouzilly, France
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- Unité BAOBAB, NeuroSpin, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Unité BAOBAB, NeuroSpin, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Unité BAOBAB, NeuroSpin, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Unité BAOBAB, NeuroSpin, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Zooparc de Beauval & Beauval Nature, 41110, Saint-Aignan, France
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- Unité de Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements (PRC), INRAE, CNRS, IFCE, Université de Tours, 37380, Nouzilly, France
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- Unité BAOBAB, NeuroSpin, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Unité BAOBAB, NeuroSpin, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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De Haas EN, Newberry RC, Edgar J, Riber AB, Estevez I, Ferrante V, Hernandez CE, Kjaer JB, Ozkan S, Dimitrov I, Rodenburg TB, Janczak AM. Prenatal and Early Postnatal Behavioural Programming in Laying Hens, With Possible Implications for the Development of Injurious Pecking. Front Vet Sci 2021; 8:678500. [PMID: 34336975 PMCID: PMC8323009 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2021.678500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Injurious pecking (IP) represents a serious concern for the welfare of laying hens (Gallus gallus domesticus). The risk of IP among hens with intact beaks in cage-free housing prompts a need for solutions based on an understanding of underlying mechanisms. In this review, we explore how behavioural programming via prenatal and early postnatal environmental conditions could influence the development of IP in laying hens. The possible roles of early life adversity and mismatch between early life programming and subsequent environmental conditions are considered. We review the role of maternal stress, egg conditions, incubation settings (temperature, light, sound, odour) and chick brooding conditions on behavioural programming that could be linked to IP. Brain and behavioural development can be programmed by prenatal and postnatal environmental conditions, which if suboptimal could lead to a tendency to develop IP later in life, as we illustrate with a Jenga tower that could fall over if not built solidly. If so, steps taken to optimise the environmental conditions of previous generations and incubation conditions, reduce stress around hatching, and guide the early learning of chicks will aid in prevention of IP in commercial laying hen flocks.
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- Elske N De Haas
- Division of Animals in Science and Society, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.,Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, Melle, Belgium
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- Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Faculty of Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol, Langford, United Kingdom
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- Aarhus University, Department of Animal Science, Tjele, Denmark
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- Department of Animal Production, Neiker, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.,IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Celle, Germany
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- Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Agricultural Institute - Stara Zagora, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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- Division of Animals in Science and Society, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway
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Rogers LJ. Brain Lateralization and Cognitive Capacity. Animals (Basel) 2021; 11:1996. [PMID: 34359124 PMCID: PMC8300231 DOI: 10.3390/ani11071996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Revised: 06/26/2021] [Accepted: 06/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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One way to increase cognitive capacity is to avoid duplication of functions on the left and right sides of the brain. There is a convincing body of evidence showing that such asymmetry, or lateralization, occurs in a wide range of both vertebrate and invertebrate species. Each hemisphere of the brain can attend to different types of stimuli or to different aspects of the same stimulus and each hemisphere analyses information using different neural processes. A brain can engage in more than one task at the same time, as in monitoring for predators (right hemisphere) while searching for food (left hemisphere). Increased cognitive capacity is achieved if individuals are lateralized in one direction or the other. The advantages and disadvantages of individual lateralization are discussed. This paper argues that directional, or population-level, lateralization, which occurs when most individuals in a species have the same direction of lateralization, provides no additional increase in cognitive capacity compared to individual lateralization although directional lateralization is advantageous in social interactions. Strength of lateralization is considered, including the disadvantage of being very strongly lateralized. The role of brain commissures is also discussed with consideration of cognitive capacity.
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- Lesley J Rogers
- School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
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Lucon-Xiccato T, Dadda M, Bisazza A. Vegetation cover induces developmental plasticity of lateralization in tadpoles. Curr Zool 2019; 66:393-399. [PMID: 32617087 PMCID: PMC7319465 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoz061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 11/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Lateralization of cognitive functions influences a large number of fitness-related behaviors and shows, in most species, substantial variation in strength and direction. Laboratory works and field data have suggested that this variation is often due to adaptive phenotypic plasticity. Strong lateralization should be favored in some ecological conditions, for example, under high risk of predation. For anuran tadpoles, the presence of cover affects predation risk, with tadpoles being more exposed to predators in environments with reduced cover. We tested the hypothesis that the amount of cover experienced early in life affects lateralization in the edible frog, Pelophylax esculentus, tadpoles. We exposed embryos and larvae to high or low vegetation cover environments. For half of the subjects, the treatment was constant whereas the remaining subjects were switched to the opposite treatment after hatching. In agreement with the theoretical expectation, tadpoles exposed to low vegetation cover for the entire development were more lateralized and showed a stronger alignment in directionality of lateralization compared with tadpoles exposed to high vegetation cover. This indicates a possible role of natural variation in vegetation abundance and developmental plasticity as determinants of between-population and between-individual differences in lateralization. We also found that shifting from high to low vegetation cover treatments and vice versa disrupted lateralization alignment, suggesting that developmental trajectories for this trait are determined at the embryonic stage and need environmental stability to be fully expressed.
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- Tyrone Lucon-Xiccato
- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Via L. Borsari 46, 44121, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 3511, Padova, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 3511, Padova, Italy
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We know a good deal about brain lateralization in birds and a good deal about animal welfare, but relatively little about whether there is a noteworthy relationship between avian welfare and brain lateralization. In birds, the left hemisphere is specialised to categorise stimuli and to discriminate preferred categories from distracting stimuli (e.g., food from an array of inedible objects), whereas the right hemisphere responds to small differences between stimuli, controls social behaviour, detects predators and controls attack, fear and escape responses. In this paper, we concentrate on visual lateralization and the effect of light exposure of the avian embryo on the development of lateralization, and we consider its role in the welfare of birds after hatching. Findings suggest that light-exposure during incubation has a general positive effect on post-hatching behaviour, likely because it facilitates control of behaviour by the left hemisphere, which can suppress fear and other distress behaviour controlled by the right hemisphere. In this context, particular attention needs to be paid to the influence of corticosterone, a stress hormone, on lateralization. Welfare of animals in captivity, as is well known, has two cornerstones: enrichment and reduction of stress. What is less well-known is the link between the influence of experience on brain lateralization and its consequent positive or negative outcomes on behaviour. We conclude that the welfare of birds may be diminished by failure to expose the developing embryos to light but we also recognise that more research on the association between lateralization and welfare is needed.
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Archer GS, Mench JA. Exposing avian embryos to light affects post-hatch anti-predator fear responses. Appl Anim Behav Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2016.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Manipulation of Strength of Cerebral Lateralization via Embryonic Light Stimulation in Birds. LATERALIZED BRAIN FUNCTIONS 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6725-4_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Polo-Cavia N, Vázquez Z, de Miguel FJ. Asymmetry in food handling behavior of a tree-dwelling rodent (Sciurus vulgaris). PLoS One 2015; 10:e0118233. [PMID: 25714614 PMCID: PMC4340868 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2014] [Accepted: 01/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Asymmetry in motor patterns is present in a wide variety of animals. Many lateralized behaviors seem to depend on brain asymmetry, as it is the case of different tasks associated to food handling by several bird and mammal species. Here, we analyzed asymmetry in handling behavior of pine cones by red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris). Red squirrels devote most of their daily activity to feeding, thus this species constitutes an appropriate model for studying asymmetry in food processing. We aimed to explore 1) the potential lateralization in handling of pine cones by squirrels, 2) the dominant pattern for this behavior (left- vs. right-handed), and 3) whether this pattern varies among populations and depending on the pine tree species available. Results revealed that red squirrels handle pine cones in an asymmetrical way, and that direction of asymmetry varies among populations and seems to be determined more by local influences rather than by the pine tree species.
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- Nuria Polo-Cavia
- Department of Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Spanish National Museum of Natural History (CSIC), 28006, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Sleigh MJ, Casey MB. Prenatal sensory experience affects hatching behavior in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus) and Japanese quail chicks (Coturnix coturnix japonica). Dev Psychobiol 2013; 56:935-42. [PMID: 24122703 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2013] [Accepted: 08/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Species-typical developmental outcomes result from organismic and environmental constraints and experiences shared by members of a species. We examined the effects of enhanced prenatal sensory experience on hatching behaviors by exposing domestic chicks (n = 95) and Japanese quail (n = 125) to one of four prenatal conditions: enhanced visual stimulation, enhanced auditory stimulation, enhanced auditory and visual stimulation, or no enhanced sensory experience (control condition). In general, across species, control embryos had slower hatching behaviors than all other embryos. Embryos in the auditory condition had faster hatching behaviors than embryos in the visual and control conditions. Auditory-visual condition embryos showed similarities to embryos exposed to either auditory or visual stimulation. These results suggest that prenatal sensory experience can influence hatching behavior of precocial birds, with the type of stimulation being a critical variable. These results also provide further evidence that species-typical outcomes are the result of species-typical prenatal experiences.
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- Merry J Sleigh
- Department of Psychology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, 29733.
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Strength of hand preference and dual task performance by common marmosets. Anim Cogn 2012; 16:127-35. [DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0562-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2012] [Revised: 08/07/2012] [Accepted: 09/13/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Wichman A, Rogers L, Freire R. Visual lateralization and development of spatial and social spacing behaviour of chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). Behav Processes 2009; 81:14-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2008] [Revised: 11/27/2008] [Accepted: 12/07/2008] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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