Saito Atsuko
Department of Cognitive and Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Neurosci Res. 2015 Apr;93:99-109. doi: 10.1016/j.neures.2014.12.011. Epub 2015 Jan 7.
Parental behavior is important for the development of mammalian offspring. Research on the mechanisms underlying parental behavior, however, has been largely restricted to rodent models. As a consequence, although research on parent-infant relationships has been conducted using macaque monkeys for more than half a century, little is known about the neural mechanisms and brain regions associated with such behaviors in primates. This article reviews parental behavior and its endocrinological mechanisms in marmosets and tamarins, both cooperative breeders in the callitrichid family, and compares these findings with studies of macaque monkeys. The paper examines the similarities and differences between marmosets and humans, and suggests the possibility that marmosets can be a model for future studies of the neural underpinnings and endocrinology underlying human parental behavior.
亲本行为对哺乳动物后代的发育至关重要。然而，对亲本行为潜在机制的研究在很大程度上局限于啮齿动物模型。因此，尽管使用猕猴对亲子关系进行的研究已开展了半个多世纪，但对于灵长类动物中与此类行为相关的神经机制和脑区却知之甚少。本文综述了绢毛猴和狨猴（狨科中的合作繁殖者）的亲本行为及其内分泌机制，并将这些发现与猕猴的研究进行了比较。本文探讨了绢毛猴与人类之间的异同，并提出绢毛猴有可能成为未来研究人类亲本行为神经基础和内分泌学的模型。
