Some common practices in aquaculture, ornamental trade and fish facilities may disturb the behavioural repertoire of fish and its natural adaptive value, reducing welfare and impairing …
Fish social behavior can be affected by artificial environments, particularly by factors that act upon species that show aggressive behavior to set social rank hierarchy. Although …
In variable environments, animals can learn to alter their behavior to adjust to changes. Sometimes, however, this learning ability can be impaired. For example, challenges in the …
MR Ramallo, A Birba, RM Honji, L Morandini… - Hormones and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Social animals with hierarchal dominance systems are particularly susceptible to their social environment. There, interactions with conspecifics and hierarchal position can greatly affect …
D Wang, B Ye, Q Wang, J He, Z Zuo, X Li, J Zou… - Aquaculture Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
This study evaluated the effects of koumine on growth performance, brain transcriptional response, expression of genes associated with circadian rhythms, and physiological stress …
Given the strong effects of behavioural hierarchies on growth in many cultured species and the key role of feed efficiency in aquaculture economics, understanding the nature of the …
This study aims to describe a Bayesian Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM) approach for longitudinal designs in fish's experimental aggressive behavior studies as an alternative to …
AFS de Carvalho, IL Assis, IM Paiva, VFR Mansur… - Aquaculture, 2017 - Elsevier
Identification of sex in fish is essential for captive breeding particularly in species that do not exhibit sexual dimorphism and heteromorphic sex chromosomes, including Astronotus …