Overview
- Presents maternal behavior of selected mammals as a model for exploring particular topics within the Neurosciences
- Provides biologists with information on proximal mechanisms governing behavior
- Provide veterinarians with access to facts and figures relevant for animal production
Part of the book series: Advances in Neurobiology (NEUROBIOL, volume 27)
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Modern neuroscience has presented new opportunities for exploring the molecular and neural mechanisms controlling specific social responses. This book reviews insights into the neural circuits underlying a particularly fascinating form of social interaction, parental behavior. This book presents a detailed review of maternal and paternal behavior of particular mammalian species. It offer neuroscientists a spectrum of specific mammals that can be used as experimental models to explore particular topics on the functions of the nervous system. It shows that results coming from the laboratory can be translated into useful information for raising mammals on the farm, and it stimulates biologists to gain insights into the underpinnings of the complex mechanisms governing mammalian behavior in the wild. It also discusses the implications of this research for human parental behavior.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Gabriela GONZALEZ-MARISCAL (PhD) focuses her research in the cellular processes and neuronal networks regulating ovulation, lactation, sexual and maternal behaviors in rats and rabbits. She also works in the field of Animal Science and she has identified specific issues that are of interest to Rabbit breeding and to Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Patterns of Parental Behavior
Book Subtitle: From Animal Science to Comparative Ethology and Neuroscience
Editors: Gabriela González-Mariscal
Series Title: Advances in Neurobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97762-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97761-0Published: 29 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97764-1Published: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97762-7Published: 28 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2190-5215
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5223
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 309
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science