Variation in steroid hormones associated with infant care behaviour and experience in male marmosets (Callithrix kuhlii)

Nunes, Scott; Fite, Jeffrey E.; French, Jeffrey A.

doi:10.1006/anbe.2000.1524

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“…hauser and Oliveira, 2000; lizards: Thompson and Moore, 1992; but see Houck and Woodley, 1995;teleosts: Cardwell and Liley, 1991;Pankhurst and Barnett, 1993;Oliveira et al, 1996Oliveira et al, , 2001cOliveira et al, , 2002mammals: Cavigelli and Pereira, 2000;Nunes et al, 2000; but see Creel et al 1993). Only the change to extremely high paternal investment (i.e., paternal incubation among the altricial passerines) contributed to the evolution of different androgen response rates.…”

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Comparative analysis of male androgen responsiveness to social environment in birds: the effects of mating system and paternal incubation

Hirschenhauser¹,

Winkler²,

Oliveira³

2003

Hormones and Behavior

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Male androgen responses to social challenges have been predicted to vary with mating system, male-male aggressiveness, and the degree of paternal investment in birds ("challenge hypothesis," Am. Nat. 136 (1990), 829). This study focused on the interspecific predictions of the challenge hypothesis. Comparative methods were used to control for effects of the phylogenetic relatedness among the sampled species. Male androgen data of 84 bird species were collected from literature records on seasonal androgen patterns. From these, the androgen responsiveness (AR) was calculated as described in the original challenge hypothesis (i.e., maximum physiological level/breeding baseline). Scatterplots of AR versus mating strategy, male-male aggressiveness, and the degree of paternal care confirmed the expected interspecific patterns. When phylogenetic analyses were performed among all of the sampled species, the effects of paternal investment disappeared while the AR remained covarying to a high degree with mating system and male-male aggressiveness. Although these mechanisms may be different at the intraspecific level, this suggests that interspecific differences of AR in male birds may have evolved in response to changes of mating strategies, rather than in response to altered paternal duties. However, control for phylogeny among the subsample of 32 passerine species revealed that if any paternal investment contributed to the observed variance in AR, then the change from "no male incubation" to "male shares incubation duties" represented the most effective, whereas the male's contribution to feeding offspring did not explain the observed variation of AR.

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Comparative analysis of male androgen responsiveness to social environment in birds: the effects of mating system and paternal incubation

Hirschenhauser¹,

Winkler²,

Oliveira³

2003

Hormones and Behavior

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“…Weeks 4-6 postpartum are a transitional period for marmoset infants. During this time period, males replace females as the primary caregiver (Wied's black tufted-ear marmoset: Fite et al, submitted for publication; Nunes et al, 2000), and infant locomotion and feeding becomes increasingly independent (common marmoset: Tardif et al, 1998). By weeks 7-10, infants exhibit locomotion that is completely independent, as well as independent feeding, although sporadic nursing bouts can still occur.…”

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“…Concentrations of T and PdG in peripartum urine samples were determined using enzyme immunoassays previously described and validated for use with C. kuhlii (T: Nunes et al, 2000;PdG: French et al, 1996). T was extracted from samples with diethyl ether before assays were performed.…”

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“…Variation in circulating levels of T is also associated with variation in the reproductive effort of individual males. For instance, decreases in T are known to accompany the onset of paternal care in fish (e.g., bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus: Kindler et al, 1991; plainfin midshipman, Porichthys notatus: Knapp et al, 1999; black-chinned tilapia, Sarotherodon melanotheron: Specker and Kishida, 2000), birds (e.g., red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis: Khan et al, 2001; white-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys pugetensis: Wingfield and Farner, 1978;song sparrow, Melospiza melodia: Wingfield and Goldsmith, 1990), rodents (e.g., Mongolian gerbil: Brown et al, 1995;Djungarian hamster, Phodopus campbelli: Reburn and Wynne-Edwards, 1999; but also see Marler, 2001, 2002), and primates (e.g., Wied's black tufted-ear marmoset, Callithrix kuhlii: Nunes et al, 2000;human: Berg and Wynne-Edwards, 2001;Fleming, 2002;Storey et al, 2000). To the degree that male and female parental behaviors appear to be regulated by common neuroendocrinological mechanisms (e.g., Kelley, 1988;Rosenblatt and Ceus, 1998;Wynne-Edwards, 2001;Wynne-Edwards and Reburn, 2000), it seems likely that T might also facilitate trade-offs between investment in current versus future offspring in females.…”

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“…Previous studies have associated transitory variation in urinary levels of T with transitory shifts in the reproductive effort of C. kuhlii males. In fact, decreased urinary T excretion was found to correspond with the postpartum shift from mating effort to parental effort (Nunes et al, 2000(Nunes et al, , 2001. Therefore, we hypothesized that if T mediates a trade-off between current and future offspring in females, and if female marmosets shift investment away from their current litters and toward developing fetuses when conception occurs DPID (Fite et al, submitted for publication), then females should have higher peripartum levels of T and exhibit less maternal caregiving effort when conception occurs DPID versus APID.…”

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Elevated urinary testosterone excretion and decreased maternal caregiving effort in marmosets when conception occurs during the period of infant dependence

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Patera

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Hormones and Behavior

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The proximate mechanisms that regulate transitions in mammalian female reproductive effort have not been widely studied. However, variation in circulating levels of the androgenic steroid hormone testosterone (T) appears to mediate a trade-off between investment in current and future offspring in males. The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility that T is also associated with transitions in the reproductive effort of females, by examining the relationship between urinary T excretion, maternal caregiving behavior, and the timing of the postpartum conception in female Wied's black tufted-ear marmosets (Callithrix kuhlii). We examined the maternal carrying effort and peripartum T profiles of six females across two conditions: (1) when they conceived during the period of infant dependence (DPID), such that gestation was coupled with lactation; and (2) when the same females conceived after the period of infant dependence (APID). We also assessed the relationship between postpartum T levels and caregiving effort. When female marmosets conceived DPID, they dramatically reduced their caregiving effort, and had higher levels of urinary T, relative to when they conceived APID. Further, the litter-to-litter changes in maternal caregiving effort that we observed were related to variation in urinary T excretion; as weekly levels of urinary T excretion increased, concurrent caregiving effort declined. Our results suggest that variation in T secretion may regulate transitions in female reproductive behavior, and that the regulation of male and female parental behavior may be mediated by homologous neuroendocrine mechanisms.

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The Marmoset as a Model for Primate Parental Behavior

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2018

Model Animals in Neuroendocrinology

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Variation in steroid hormones associated with infant care behaviour and experience in male marmosets (Callithrix kuhlii)

Cited by 111 publications

References 55 publications

Comparative analysis of male androgen responsiveness to social environment in birds: the effects of mating system and paternal incubation

Comparative analysis of male androgen responsiveness to social environment in birds: the effects of mating system and paternal incubation

Elevated urinary testosterone excretion and decreased maternal caregiving effort in marmosets when conception occurs during the period of infant dependence

The Marmoset as a Model for Primate Parental Behavior

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