A positive feedback loop between sociality and social competence

B Taborsky - Ethology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The social environment of animals influences individual social decisions, which in turn feeds
back on the social environment. The two halves of this feedback loop are rarely studied in …

[HTML][HTML] Dopamine modulates social behaviour in cooperatively breeding fish

DF Antunes, MC Soares, M Taborsky - Molecular and cellular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dopamine is part of the reward system triggering the social decision-making network in the
brain. It has hence great potential importance in the regulation of social behaviour, but its …

Contributions of genetic and nongenetic sources to variation in cooperative behavior in a cooperative mammal

TM Houslay, JF Nielsen, TH Clutton-Brock - Evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The evolution of cooperative behavior is a major area of research among evolutionary
biologists and behavioral ecologists, yet there are few estimates of its heritability or its …

Medaka as a model for seasonal plasticity: Photoperiod-mediated changes in behaviour, cognition, and hormones

T Lucon-Xiccato, G Montalbano, E Frigato, F Loosli… - Hormones and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Teleosts display the highest level of brain plasticity of all vertebrates. Yet we still know little
about how seasonality affects fish behaviour and the underlying cognitive mechanisms …