Laterality and fish welfare-a review

F Berlinghieri, P Panizzon, IL Penry-Williams… - Applied Animal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans interact with fishes in many contexts including aquaculture, scientific study and
companion animals. In all of these contexts, fish welfare can be compromised through …

Brain and behavioral asymmetry: A lesson from fish

ME Miletto Petrazzini, VA Sovrano… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
It is widely acknowledged that the left and right hemispheres of human brains display both
anatomical and functional asymmetries. For more than a century, brain and behavioral …

Behavioral genetic toolkits: toward the evolutionary origins of complex phenotypes

CC Rittschof, GE Robinson - Current topics in developmental biology, 2016 - Elsevier
The discovery of toolkit genes, which are highly conserved genes that consistently regulate
the development of similar morphological phenotypes across diverse species, is one of the …

Specialized specialists and the narrow niche fallacy: a tale of scale-feeding fishes

MA Kolmann, JM Huie, K Evans… - Royal Society open …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although rare within the context of 30 000 species of extant fishes, scale-feeding as an
ecological strategy has evolved repeatedly across the teleost tree of life. Scale-feeding …

On the measurement of ecological novelty: scale-eating pupfish are separated by 168 my from other scale-eating fishes

CH Martin, PC Wainwright - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The colonization of new adaptive zones is widely recognized as one of the hallmarks of
adaptive radiation. However, the adoption of novel resources during this process is rarely …

Lateralized feeding behavior is associated with asymmetrical neuroanatomy and lateralized gene expressions in the brain in scale-eating cichlid fish

HJ Lee, RF Schneider, T Manousaki… - Genome Biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Lateralized behavior (“handedness”) is unusual, but consistently found across
diverse animal lineages, including humans. It is thought to reflect brain anatomical and/or …

Acquisition of lateralized predation behavior associated with development of mouth asymmetry in a Lake Tanganyika scale-eating cichlid fish

Y Takeuchi, M Hori, S Tada, Y Oda - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The scale-eating cichlid Perissodus microlepis with asymmetric mouth is an attractive model
of behavioral laterality: each adult tears off scales from prey fishes' left or right flanks …

Preying on cyprinid snout warts (pearl organs) as a novel and peculiar habit in the Lake Malawi cichlid Docimodus evelynae

Y Takeuchi, H Hata, M Sasaki, A Mvula, S Mizuhara… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Cichlid fishes in the African Great Lakes have undergone explosive speciation, acquiring
markedly varying ecologies and diets. There are multiple lineages of scale-eating cichlids …

Towards understanding the genetic basis of mouth asymmetry in the scale‐eating cichlid Perissodus microlepis

F Raffini, C Fruciano, P Franchini, A Meyer - Molecular Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
How polymorphisms consisting in left–right asymmetries are produced and maintained in
natural populations is a tantalizing question, which remains largely unanswered. The scale …

Mouth asymmetry in the textbook example of scale-eating cichlid fish is not a discrete dimorphism after all

H Kusche, HJ Lee, A Meyer - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Individuals of the scale-eating cichlid fish, Perissodus microlepis, from Lake Tanganyika
tend to have remarkably asymmetric heads that are either left-bending or right-bending. The …