Olfactory toxicity in fishes

KB Tierney, DH Baldwin, TJ Hara, PS Ross, NL Scholz… - Aquatic toxicology, 2010 - Elsevier
Olfaction conveys critical environmental information to fishes, enabling activities such as
mating, locating food, discriminating kin, avoiding predators and homing. All of these …

Learning about danger: chemical alarm cues and local risk assessment in prey fishes

GE Brown - Fish and Fisheries, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
An individual's behaviour patterns can be conceptualized as a series of threat‐sensitive
trade‐offs between ambient predation pressure and a suite of fitness‐related activities, such …

The sensory ecology of nonconsumptive predator effects

M Weissburg, DL Smee… - The American …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Nonconsumptive effects (NCEs) have been shown to occur in numerous systems and are
regarded as important mechanisms by which predation structures natural communities …

Chemical defenses: from compounds to communities

VJ Paul, KE Arthur, R Ritson-Williams… - The Biological …, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
Marine natural products play critical roles in the chemical defense of many marine
organisms and in some cases can influence the community structure of entire ecosystems …

Chemical cues that indicate risk of predation

BD Wisenden - Fish pheromones and related cues, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Strong and unrelenting selection on prey to detect risk of predation has resulted in a diverse
proliferation of behavioral responses to chemical cues associated with predators and …

Making sense of predator scents: investigating the sophistication of predator assessment abilities of fathead minnows

RC Kusch, RS Mirza, DP Chivers - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004 - Springer
According to the threat-sensitive predator avoidance hypothesis, selection favors prey that
accurately assess the degree of threat posed by a predator and adjust their anti-predator …

Laterality enhances numerical skills in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata

M Dadda, C Agrillo, A Bisazza, C Brown - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
It has been hypothesized that cerebral lateralization can significantly enhance cognition and
that this was one of the primary selective forces shaping its wide-spread evolution amongst …

Divergent walleye (Sander vitreus)-mediated inducible defenses in the centrarchid pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus)

AJ Januszkiewicz, BW Robinson - Biological Journal of the …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Predation has important ecological and evolutionary consequences. Evolutionary responses
to diversifying selection include genetic differentiation, the evolution of adaptive phenotypic …

Chemical alarm cues inform prey of predation threat: the importance of ontogeny and concentration in a coral reef fish

OM Lönnstedt, MI McCormick - Animal Behaviour, 2011 - Elsevier
Prey that respond to inappropriate cues in their assessment of predation risk spend more
time performing defensive behaviours and less time undertaking behaviours that promote …

Impaired detection of chemical alarm cues by juvenile wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in a weakly acidic environment

AOHC Leduc, E Roh, MC Harvey… - Canadian Journal of …, 2006 - cdnsciencepub.com
Plusieurs poissons proies utilisent les signaux d'alerte chimiques libérés par les blessures
pour détecter et éviter les prédateurs. Il a été démontré que la capacité d'utiliser ces signaux …