Aggressive communication in aquatic environments

JG Frommen - Functional Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aggressive interactions are ubiquitous among animals. They are either directed towards
heterospecifics, like predators or competitors, or conspecifics. During intraspecific …

Behavioral and brain- transcriptomic synchronization between the two opponents of a fighting pair of the fish Betta splendens

TD Vu, Y Iwasaki, S Shigenobu, A Maruko… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Conspecific male animals fight for resources such as food and mating opportunities but
typically stop fighting after assessing their relative fighting abilities to avoid serious injuries …

Human–wildlife coexistence in urban wildlife management: insights from nonlethal predator management and rodenticide bans

C Hunold, M Mazuchowski - Animals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary We seek to understand how US cities manage human coexistence with
wild animals that are often disliked, specifically coyotes and rats. To this end, we analyze …

Brain transcriptomics of agonistic behaviour in the weakly electric fish Gymnotus omarorum, a wild teleost model of non-breeding aggression

G Eastman, G Valiño, S Radío, RL Young… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Differences in social status are often mediated by agonistic encounters between
competitors. Robust literature has examined social status-dependent brain gene expression …

The zebrafish histamine H3 receptor modulates aggression, neural activity and forebrain functional connectivity

F Reichmann, N Rimmer, CA Tilley… - Acta …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Aggression is a behavioural trait characterized by the intention to harm others for
offensive or defensive purposes. Neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine are …

Hormonal and neural correlates of care in active versus observing poison frog parents

EK Fischer, LA O'Connell - Hormones and Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
The occasional reversal of sex-typical behavior suggests that many of the neural circuits
underlying behavior are conserved between males and females and can be activated in …

[HTML][HTML] The behavioral paradigm to induce repeated social defeats in zebrafish

H Nakajo, T Tsuboi, H Okamoto - Neuroscience Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Social subordination, which causes severe stress in animals, can affect animal's behaviors,
homeostasis, and mental health. In rodents, experiences of repeated social defeats, but not …

Forebrain transcriptional response to transient changes in circulating androgens in a cichlid fish

AS Félix, SD Cardoso, A Roleira… - G3: Genes, Genomes …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
It has been hypothesized that androgens respond to the social interactions as a way to
adjust the behavior of individuals to the challenges of the social environment in an adaptive …

The evolutionary roots of social comparisons

ME Benítez, SF Brosnan - Social comparison, judgment, and …, 2020 - books.google.com
A core aspect of human behavior is that we evaluate ourselves in comparison to others in
our social group (Festinger, 1954). The Jamaican runner Usain Bolt is considered the fastest …

Identification of key pathways and genes responsible for aggressive behavior

N Uddin, M Hussain, I Rauf, SF Zaidi - Computational biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Aggression is a complex behavior, underpinned by cross talk between several
biomolecules. To date a composite molecular network of the behavioral disorder has not …