Activation of Auditory Centers during Freezing Response Depends on Visual Afferentation in Course of the Development of Pied Flycatcher Nestlings — Oak Academic Publishing
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Activation of Auditory Centers during Freezing Response Depends on Visual Afferentation in Course of the Development of Pied Flycatcher Nestlings
Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Moscow, Russia
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P.K. Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology, Moscow, Russia
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Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Moscow, Russia
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Biology Dept., Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
1 Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Moscow, Russia
2 P.K. Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology, Moscow, Russia
3 Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Moscow, Russia
4 Biology Dept., Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
The study of defense behavior development in pied flycatcher altricial nestlings has shown that preceding visual deprivation decreased the capability to freeze in the young. At the same time, auditory thresholds of deprived nestlings were lower than those of the nestlings developing in unaltered visual environment. Our goal in the present work was to study effects of visual input on the functional development of neural circuitry for flycatcher’s acoustically-guided defensive behavior. We compared the immunohistochemical response of transcription factors ZENK and c-Fos in the nestlings’ auditory telencephalic structures in visually deprived and non-deprived flycatcher nestlings to alarm calls emitted by adult birds. We have demonstrated that the development of flycatcher nestlings under the conditions of limited visual afferentation results in the decrease of induction of the immediate-early genes c-Fos and ZENK in auditory structures of 9-day-old nestlings performing auditory-guided defense behavior. The most marked decrease of induction of both genes is observed in Field L. Our data suggest that visual afferentation affects neuronal activations in higher auditory structures of nestlings’ brain that, in turn, may increase the efficiency of species-typical alarm call. Thus, the work demonstrated for the first time that visual affererntation facilitates the growth of efficiency of alarm call affecting the activity of neurons in auditory integrative structures.
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