Neuroendocrine Regulation of Animal Vocalization

Cheryl S. Rosenfeld, DVM, PhD, has published extensively on how maternal diet and developmental exposure to endocrine-disrupting compounds affect offspring outcomes. She has written several review articles and book chapters, including the most recent one on animal models of transgenerational epigenetic effects in Transgenerational Epigenetics: Evidence and Debate, published by Elsevier. She also edited and coauthored the book The Epigenome and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, which won the BMA Medical Award for Basic and Clinical Sciences in 2016. Frauke Hoffmann received her Dr. rer. nat. in 2012 at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, focusing on animal communication and EDC effects on vocalizations. She is currently a senior scientific officer at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment.

• I. Introduction1. Neuroendocrine control of sound production and perceptionII. Sound production and perceptionSection A: Invertebrates2. Acoustic identification of insects based on cepstral data fusion and hidden Markov models3. Sound production and perception in invertebrates: Regulation of acoustic sensory-to-motor processing in insects4. Acoustic/vibration behaviors in crustaceansSection B: Vertebrates5. Vocal production in anurans6. Endocrine modulation of acoustic communication: Xenopus laevis as a model system7. Reptile sound production and perceptionSection C: Mammals8. The role of sex hormones in human language development9. From whispers to howling cries: Sound production and perception in nonhuman primates10. Canine sound production, perception, and processing11. Artiodactyl vocalization12. Neuroendocrine controls of vocalizations in rodents13. The perception of acoustic signals and the hormonal control over acoustic communication in rodents14. Vocalization in subterranean and fossorial rodents15. Sonic and ultrasonic communication in bats: Acoustics, perception, and production16. Sound production and propagation in cetaceans17. Elephant sonic and infrasonic sound production, perception, and processing18. Marsupial vocal communication: A review of vocal signal production, form, and functionSection D: Birds19. Neuroendocrine regulation of vocalizations and other sounds in nonsongbirds20. Courtship vocalizations in nonsongbirds: Auditory and neuroendocrine mechanisms in intersexual communicationIII. The biology and politics of a silent spring21. Endocrine disrupters and potential effects on vocalization: Behaviors in rodents and other species22. Measures to curb endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the United StatesSection E: Current steps other countries are taking to minimize exposure of wildlife (and humans) to EDCs23. Assessment of endocrine disrupters under European regulations24. Assessment strategies of endocrine disrupters under regulations of the ministry of the environment of Japan25. Africa26. Final thoughts on understanding animal vocalizations in the 21st century

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