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Louis Lefebvre: Animal innovation: from ecology to neurotransmitters

Thème:
evolution
Quoi:
Talk
Quand:
2:00 PM, Vendredi 29 Juin 2018 (1 heure 30 minutes)
Some animals are opportunistic and respond to environmental change with flexible behaviour, while others are conservative and do not easily adapt to change. One way to operationalize this continuum is to quantify the number of novel foods and feeding techniques that animals use, corrected for all possible sources of bias. An integrative approach to this has several levels. First, it examines the phylogenetic distribution of the trait in as wide an array of animals as possible to assess the relative roles of common ancestry and independent convergent evolution. Second, it looks for all possible behavioral, ecological and life history correlates of this distribution to identify selective contexts, trade-offs and syndromes. Third, it identifies the neural mechanisms of innovation and its cognitive correlates at the level of brain area expansion, neuron numbers and neurotransmitter expression. Finally, ecologically relevant experimental proxies are validated to examine in the wild fitness differentials associated with innovative behavior.
Audet, J. N., Kayello, L., Ducatez, S., Perillo, S., Cauchard, L., Howard, J. T., ... & Lefebvre, L. (2018). Divergence in problem-solving skills is associated with differential expression of glutamate receptors in wild finchesScience Advances4(3), eaao6369.


Lefebvre, L., Reader, S. M., & Sol, D. (2004). Brains, innovations and evolution in birds and primatesBrain, Behavior and Evolution63(4), 233-246.


Louis Lefebvre (Speaker)
Professor McGill University



Michael Ryan (Moderator)
Professor University of Texas

Modérateur.rice
University of Texas
Professor
Participant.e
McGill University
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