Longhui ZHAO,Jichao WANG,Yanlin CAI,et al.Behavioral and Neurogenomic Responses to Acoustic and Visual Sexual Cues are Correlated in Female Torrent Frogs[J].Asian Herpetological Research(AHR),2021,12(1):88-99.[doi:10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.200063]
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Behavioral and Neurogenomic Responses to Acoustic and Visual Sexual Cues are Correlated in Female Torrent Frogs
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Asian Herpetological Research[ISSN:2095-0357/CN:51-1735/Q]

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2021 VoI.12 No.1
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88-99
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2021-03-25

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Title:
Behavioral and Neurogenomic Responses to Acoustic and Visual Sexual Cues are Correlated in Female Torrent Frogs
Author(s):
Longhui ZHAO1; 2; 3;  Jichao WANG4;  Yanlin CAI1; 3;  Jianghong RAN2;  Steven E. BRAUTH5;  Yezhong TANG1 and Jianguo CUI1*
1 Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, China
2 Key Laboratory of Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, China
3 University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
4 Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, Hainan, China
5 Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 27042, USA
Keywords:
energy metabolism;  multimodal communication;  little torrent frogs;  neurogenomic states;  sexual traits
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DOI:
10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.200063
Abstract:
Diverse animal species use multimodal communication signals to coordinate reproductive behavior. Despite active research in this field, the brain mechanisms underlying multimodal communication remain poorly understood. Similar to humans and many mammalian species, anurans often produce auditory signals accompanied by conspicuous visual cues (e.g., vocal sac inflation). In this study, we used video playbacks to determine the role of vocal-sac inflation in little torrent frogs (Amolops torrentis). Then we exposed females to blank, visual, auditory, and audiovisual stimuli and analyzed whole brain tissue gene expression changes using RNA-seq. The results showed that both auditory cues (i.e., male advertisement calls) and visual cues were attractive to female frogs, although auditory cues were more attractive than visual cues. Females preferred simultaneous bimodal cues to unimodal cues. The hierarchical clustering of differentially expressed genes showed a close relationship between neurogenomic states and momentarily expressed sexual signals. We also found that the Gene Ontology terms and KEGG pathways involved in energy metabolism were mostly increased in blank contrast versus visual, acoustic, or audiovisual stimuli, indicating that brain energy use may play an important role in response to these stimuli. In sum, behavioral and neurogenomic responses to acoustic and visual cues are correlated in female little torrent frogs.

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