Alarm cues and alarmed conspecifics: neural activity during social learning from different cues in Trinidadian guppies

R Fan, SM Reader, JT Sakata - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Learning to respond appropriately to novel dangers is often essential to survival and
success, but carries risks. Learning about novel threats from others (social learning) can …

Preoptic Area Activation and Vasotocin Involvement in the Reproductive Behavior of a Weakly Pulse-Type Electric Fish, Brachyhypopomus gauderio

P Pouso, Á Cabana, JL Goodson… - Frontiers in integrative …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Social behavior exhibits a wide diversity among vertebrates though it is controlled by a
conserved neural network, the social behavior network (SBN). The activity of the SBN is …

Differences in neural activity, but not behavior, across social contexts in guppies, Poecilia reticulata

EK Fischer, SE Westrick, L Hartsough… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2018 - Springer
Animals are continually faced with the challenge of producing context-appropriate social
behaviors. In many instances, appropriate behaviors differ by social situation. However, in …

Social isolation and group size are associated with divergent gene expression in the brain of ant queens

F Manfredini, C Martinez‐Ruiz, Y Wurm… - Genes, Brain and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Social life and isolation pose a complex suite of challenges to organisms prompting
significant changes in neural state. However, plasticity in how brains respond to social …

Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

A Boussard, M Ahlkvist, A Corral-López… - Behavioral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Collective motion is common across all animal taxa, from swarming insects to schools of fish.
The collective motion requires intricate behavioral integration among individuals, yet little is …

A roadmap to explanatory pluralism: introduction to the topical collection The Biology of Behaviour

E Muszynski, C Malaterre - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
Pluralism is widely appealed to in many areas of philosophy of science, though what is
meant by 'pluralism'may profoundly vary. Because explanations of behaviour have been a …

Vasotocin but not isotocin is involved in the emergence of the dominant-subordinate status in males of the weakly electric fish, Gymnotus omarorum

P Pouso, Á Cabana, V Francia, A Silva - Hormones and Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
The establishment of the dominant-subordinate status implies a clear behavioral asymmetry
between contenders that arises immediately after the resolution of the agonistic encounter …

Social stimuli increase activity of adult-born cells in the telencephalon of zebrafish (Danio rerio)

KD Dunlap, MC Teles… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Fish have particularly high levels of adult neurogenesis, and this high neurogenic capacity
may contribute to behavioural plasticity. While it is known that adult-born cells can …

[HTML][HTML] Sensory cues of predation risk generate sex-specific changes in neural activity and behavior, but not hormones, in Trinidadian guppies

AE Merritt, MES John, F Leri, LR Stein - Hormones and Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
How an organism responds to risk depends on how that individual perceives such risk.
Integrating cues from multiple sensory modalities allows individuals to extract information …

Epigenetics of Stress in Farmed Fish: An Appraisal

B Guinand, A Samaras - Epigenetics in Aquaculture, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As rearing environments and hatchery practices are stressful, there is an increased interest
in how epigenetics can impact or monitor the health and welfare of aquaculture species, and …