The fitness benefits of social life depend on the ability of animals to affiliate with others and
form groups, on dominance hierarchies within groups that determine resource distribution …

Animal‐focused research has been crucial for scientific advancement, but rodents are still
taking a starring role. Starting as merely supporting evidence found in rodents, the use of …

Social plasticity, defined as the ability to adaptively change the expression of social behavior
according to previous experience and to social context, is a key ecological performance trait …

Based on a wide variety of data, it is now clear that birds and teleost (bony) fish possess a
core “social behavior network” within the basal forebrain and midbrain that is homologous to …

Zebrafish are an established model organism in developmental and behavioral
neuroscience, also recently emerging as an excellent model to study social behavior …

Highlights•The neural mechanisms of social cognition are conserved across vertebrate
evolution.•Teleost fishes provide insight into cognition in mate preference …

Social living animals need to adjust the expression of their behavior to their status within the
group and to changes in social context and this ability (social plasticity) has an impact on …

Behavioral neuroendocrinology is an integrative discipline that spans a wide range of taxa
and neural systems, and thus the appropriate designation of homology (sameness) across …

All animals evaluate the salience of external stimuli and integrate them with internal
physiological information into adaptive behavior. Natural and sexual selection impinge on …

Early-life social experience can strongly affect adult behavior, yet the behavioral
mechanisms underlying developmental trajectories are poorly understood. Here, we use the …